On May 5, the US Department of State, in its Factsheet on Taiwan, made few subtle but important changes signalling a changed US policy towards Taiwan, which invited a sharp reaction from Beijing. The most important change was deletion of an earlier wording, which stated, “The US does not suppo
US Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kohl that the US is in talks with Pakistan “to keep the air line of communication open” for Afghanistan. Kohl said this during a briefing of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee on security in Afghanistan and in South and Central Asia. This development comes days after Pakistan’s Foreign Office rejected a CNN report that claimed that the President Joe Biden’s administration has told US lawmakers that the US was nearing a formal agreement to use Pakistan’s airspace to carry out military operations in Afghanistan. The foreign office had said that “no such understanding was in place. Pakistan and the US have longstanding cooperation on.
Biden announces key nominees for Department of Defense ANI | Updated: Dec 31, 2020 01:40 IST
Washington DC [US], December 31 (ANI): US President-electJoe Biden on Wednesday selected two former senior officials for top positions at the Pentagon, according to the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition team.
As per an official release, Biden has selected Kathleen Hicks, who currently leads his Pentagon transition team and works as a strategist at the Washington-based think tank, as his nominee to be deputy defense secretary.
Hicks would become the first woman to hold the second-highest-ranking job at Pentagon.
Besides Hicks, the President-elect has picked a former Pentagon official for the Middle East, Colin Kohl, his former national security advisor, to be undersecretary of defense for policy.
mcmaster, and i ve heard kelly likes bolton, we re all going to die. that was from the former national security adviser to vice president joe biden. well, now that that s actually happened, now that mcmaster is not just out but john bolton is in to replace him, mr. kahl isn t saying, okay, we re all dead now but he is making a very considered, sober, well thought out argument but just like that initial tweet, it s about as serious as a heart attack. joining us is colin kohl. thank you for joining us tonight. i appreciate your time. great to be with you. you alarmed me because i respect your experties and i think of you as a non-hyperbolic