{"id":41251,"date":"2020-12-12T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41251"},"modified":"2020-12-12T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:33:19","slug":"flaskback-trump-removed-longstanding-warmongers-from-defense-policy-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41251","title":{"rendered":"FLASKBACK: Trump Removed Longstanding Warmongers from Defense Policy Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump team removes members of Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Policy Board, including Kissinger, Albright<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The purge was done quietly earlier this week, on the eve of Thanksgiving.<\/h3>\n<p>By Jennifer Griffin, Adam Shaw | Fox News<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pentagons-top-policy-official-resigns-a-day-after-esper-fired\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Defense Department<\/a> on Friday said that a number of members of its Defense Policy Board &#8212; including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright &#8212; had been removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cAs part of long-considered changes, we can confirm that several members of the Department\u2019s Defense Policy Board have been removed,\u201d a U.S. Defense official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/11\/25\/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foreign Policy<\/a>, which first reported the removals, said 11 high-profile advisers were ousted from the board, including Kissinger and Albright, as well as former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.<\/p>\n<p>The purge was done quietly earlier this week, on the eve of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Also removed include former Treasury undersecretary David McCormick, who served during the George W. Bush administration, and Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful to the departing board members, many of whom have served for decades.\u00a0As we adapt the Department for great power competition, I look forward to naming new board members in the coming days,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy reported that members of the Trump administration had tried to remake the board with figures more sympathetic to the president and outside of the D.C. establishment &#8212; including former Air Force fighter pilot Scott O\u2019Grady and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n<p>However, the outlet reports that that move received pushback from then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper and acting Undersecretary James Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Esper was fired earlier this month and replaced with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Anderson resigned a day later.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-pentagon-defense-policy-board\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-pentagon-defense-policy-board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump team removes members of Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Policy Board, including Kissinger, Albright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}