US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. AP=Yonhap News
– For the first time in U.S. history, a black secretary of defense was born in the administration of Joe Biden.
On the 22nd (local time), the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported in breaking news that the nominee for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was approved by Congress. On that day, the Senate approved Defense Minister Lloyd with 93 for and 2 votes against.
Secretary of Defense Austin, who has become a member of the Biden administration’s cabinet, is a person who worked closely with President Biden from 2010 to 2011, when President Biden was Vice President of the Barack Obama administration. In particular, he was the commander of US forces in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq at the time, and was the person who led the US forces to stop intervening in Iraq. In 2014, after the withdrawal of the U.S. forces, the Central Command played a key role in devising a strategy to defeat the Islamic extremist Islamic State (IS).
On the 12th, President Biden nominated Austin’s defense minister and introduced it as “the person we need now.”
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