Patrick M. Shanahan will be acting Defense Secretary, Jan 1. 2019 – IOTW Report

Patrick M. Shanahan will be acting Defense Secretary, Jan 1. 2019

Daily Caller: President Trump announced Sunday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis will leave office on Jan. 1, two months earlier than expected.

Trump is appointing Mattis’ deputy, Patrick M. Shanahan, as acting defense secretary until a permanent replacement is found, he announced on Twitter.   more

 

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9 Comments on Patrick M. Shanahan will be acting Defense Secretary, Jan 1. 2019

  1. Let’s hope that he’s not another Robert McNamara coming from the corporate world of Boeing like McNamara did from Ford. Remember how well that turned out, it was a complete FUBAR and SNAFU all rolled up into one giant mess. The DOD needs a military leader and not another corporate lackey.

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  2. The SecDef needs to be a manager, not a warrior; warriors work for the President and incidentally for the SecDef.

    Just because Mr. McNamara was an inept manager doesn’t mean that all business types are bad. After all McNamara did a great job in the peacetime DoD.

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