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Trump Mulls Nominating 'China Hawk' James Webb as Pentagon Chief - Reports
Trump Mulls Nominating 'China Hawk' James Webb as Pentagon Chief - Reports
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump is looking at former Secretary of the Navy James Webb, a former Democratic senator, and advocate of... 03.01.2019, Sputnik International
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Trump Mulls Nominating 'China Hawk' James Webb as Pentagon Chief - Reports
23:49 GMT 03.01.2019 (Updated: 12:28 GMT 06.08.2022) WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump is looking at former Secretary of the Navy James Webb, a former Democratic senator, and advocate of confronting China, as his next secretary of defense to replace James Mattis, the US media said Thursday.
Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy under Republican President Ronald Reagan was a critic of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and may be asked to implement US troop withdrawals from both Syria and Afghanistan, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
2 January 2019, 19:59 GMT
Mattis resigned as defense secretary in late December, citing in his resignation letter differences with Trump on major defense policies. Trump this week accused his top military advisers and generals of failing to make any progress on winning the war in Afghanistan despite the free hand he had given them.
Since then former deputy defense secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was previously a senior executive at Boeing, has temporarily run the Pentagon.
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Representatives for Vice President Mike Pence and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney have already contacted Webb, the report said, citing an unidentified Trump administration official.
