Sentences with phrase «u.s. defense secretary»

FILE - In this March 22, 2018, file photo, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the melee with the memorable phrase «Stuff happens.»

With a rash of cyberattacks in the Middle East and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warning of a possible «cyber Pearl Harbor,» Carr was in constant demand last year.

Washington (CNN)- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will urge President Barack Obama to veto a coming $ 726 billion defense authorization bill if it contains funding for unwanted projects Gates has been trying to cut for years.

Schumer said he recently underscored the importance of Fort Drum in a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said securing peace between Israelis and Palestinians will require «bold action» and there is «no alternative» to negotiations.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has given the White House new policy guidance on transferring individuals to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

«It's kind of like the old Robert McNamara saying,» says Chesky, referencing a comment about nuclear weapons by the controversial 1960s U.S. defense secretary to explain his own voracious pursuit of management knowledge.

LONDON (Reuters)- The United States is concerned about Russia's presence in Afghanistan and its interactions with Taliban fighters, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday.

«We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea,» U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said after meeting Trump and his national security team.

SEOUL (Reuters)- U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that he could not imagine United States ever accepting a nuclear North Korea, warning that its rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programs would undermine, not strengthen, its security.

WILLIAM PERRY, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY FROM 1994 TO 1997 AND HAS NEGOTIATED WITH NORTH KOREA: «This is a major improvement over diplomacy that consisted of shouting insults at each other.

Aramco has been the victim of a high - profile cyber attack in the past, with former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta describing the 2012 so - called Shamoon attack as perhaps the most destructive cyber attack on a private business.

William Cohen, a former U.S. defense secretary, said Tillerson's visit was important for both sides.

In January, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the decision to delay the drills was because of logistical concerns, since many South Korean security forces would be occupied with protecting the Olympics.

Not exact matches

And their leader, Secretary of Defense Mattis, testified yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the utility of the JCPOA for the U.S. and global security.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in AfghaDefense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghadefense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary James Mattis also sought to clarify Washington's strategy, saying late on Thursday that the U.S. preferred a diplomatic approach to the current predicament.

Abu Ghraib was a moral failing of the U.S. military that should have resulted in the resignation of the Secretary of Defense.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson discusses the United States military and building out defense infrastructure.

A Department of Defense memo to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross supports the findings from Ross that steel and aluminum imports impair U.S. national security.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen said he was skeptical about a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Discussing just how concerned the world should be with the aggressive tenor coming out of North Korea, and whether the U.S. is doing enough to combat hackers, with Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense.

The United States has to make it clear to Russian President Vladimir Putin that there are lines that the U.S. will not allow Russia to cross, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CNBC on Tuesday.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen said he had reservations about whether North Korea would actually get rid of all its nuclear weapons.

Department of Defense, then - U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Ron Lewis, right, greets then - Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, left, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, May 13, 2013.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups froSecretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups frosecretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups frosecretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups frosecretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

He served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1983 to 1989.

«We reiterated to China that they have a diplomatic responsibility to exert much greater economic and diplomatic pressure on the regime if they want to prevent further escalation in the region,» U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters at a joint news conference with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

Kinzer's book should be required reading for every legislator on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or on the House Committee on International Relations — and for President Bush, the secretaries of state and defense and others shaping U.S. foreign policy toward predominantly Muslim countries.

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Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Meanwhile, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that based on his conversations with the defense secretary, there is no good military solution in North Korea.

(7) it is REDACTED consistent with U.S. law and the laws of war for the Secretary of Defense to detain Mr. Padilla as enemy combatant.

Several U.S. officials say Trump has given his defense secretary the authority to make decisions on U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, amid repeated calls from commanders for more forces.

The recent visit to Beijing by the U.S. secretary of defense, Leon Panetta — which coincided with State Department statements that the U.S. - Japan security treaty would apply to the disputed Senkaku Islands — highlights the growing tension with China over America's military presence in Asia, Chinese efforts to counteract it, and the dangerous misperceptions that can arise if defense strategy gets in the way of diplomacy.

In the afternoon, Trump will have lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and the Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and then meet behind closed doors with members of the U.S. Senate.

The Reyes campaign proudly announces that Juan Reyes has been endorsed by former U.S. Senator Bob Dole (pictured above with Reyes) and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The military has been studying its options for strengthening U.S. missile defenses since May 2017, when Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ordered a Ballistic Missile Defense Review.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to name a team of advisers to recommend steps the U.S. military should take to comply with an eventual repeal of its «don't ask, don't tell» policy barring gays from serving openly in uniform, congressional sources said.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is doubling down on her opposition to granting retired Gen. James Mattis a waiver to become Defense secretary after meeting with Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon.

Responding to an Associated Press investigation, three U.S. senators — including Kirsten Gillibrand of New York — urged Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to lift what they called the military justice system's «cloak of secrecy» and make records from sex crimes cases readily accessible.

On a rare, and unannounced, visit to the home of the U.S. military's prison for terror suspects, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis offered a pep talk to American troops — and urged them to always be ready for war.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called on Defense Secretary James Mattis to immediately initiate a full audit of required notifications to the FBI by all military criminal investigative organizations after the Air Force's failure to report.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen have certified that the U.S. military is prepared to accept openly gay and lesbian service members, and that doing so will not harm military readiness, the White House announced Friday.

Responding to an Associated Press investigation, three U.S. senators — including Kirsten Gillibrand of New York — on Tuesday urged Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to lift what they called the military justice system's «cloak of secrecy» and make records from sex crimes cases readily accessible.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama and top Pentagon officials including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are attending Tuesday's dignified transfer ceremony for 38 U.S. and Afghan personnel killed on board a helicopter shot down in Afghanistan over the weekend.

U.S. Government Officials: former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin

«He's part of a triumvirate of Bush appointees who are committed to making further modifications in the U.S. nuclear weapons program,» says Marylia Kelley of Tri Valley CAREs, an anti-nuclear group based in Livermore, California, noting that Obama also has retained Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton.