Amanda Dory, director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, will perform the duties of the undersecretary of defense for policy when Sasha Baker, acting undersecretary for
MoreDerek Chollet, counselor of the Department of State, has been nominated as Department of Defense undersecretary for policy. The nomination was announced by President Joe Biden and sent to the Senate on
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Derek Chollet is set to depart his role as the Defense Departmentâs assistant secretary for international security affairs in January, Foreign Policy reported Wednesday. Chollet told his staff Wednesday in an email that
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Derek Chollet, Defense Departmentâs assistant defense secretary for international security affairs, has outlined what he sees as challenges to NATO amid the ongoing drawdown of forces in Afghanistan and declining defense budgets, the
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The administration has submitted an overseas contingency operations spending plan requesting Congress to allot the Defense and State departments a total of $60 billion in 2015 for global contingencies, Defense News reported Wednesday.
MoreElissa Slotkin, formerly a foreign affairs specialist at the Defense Department, has been appointed principal deputy assistant defense secretary for international security affairs. The Defense Department said Slotkin was also promoted to
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