Sentences with phrase «former military officials»
The administration defended President Trump's idea for a national military parade, as some former military officials likened the proposed parade to affairs held by authoritarian regimes and some lawmakers questioned the costs that might be involved.
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U.S. officials are concerned by the specter of former military and intelligence officers working at Kaspersky, and fear that the company's software could allow Russian state - sponsored hackers to steal user files, read private email correspondence or attack critical infrastructure in the United States.
The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».
«I think that in the Syrian theater, Russia is unlikely to interfere with the coming US operation or take military steps to prevent it or in retribution, despite their comments,» Cliff Kupchan, a former US State Department official who is now chairman of the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider.
McMaster, whose February 2017 appointment was lauded by politicians of both parties as well as many military officials, will be replaced by former UN ambassador John Bolton.
Guo and Xu Caihou, two former CMC vice-chairmen, were the most senior military officials to be hit by Xi's far - reaching anti-corruption campaign.
US security head John Bolton would risk military conflict with China to achieve goals, former US officials say
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 from Mexico.
Six former U.S. intelligence officials, as well as former ArcSight employees and independent security experts, said the source code review could help Moscow discover weaknesses in the software, potentially helping attackers to blind the U.S. military to a cyber attack.
This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.
Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.
As I noted in an earlier post, Mission: Readiness, an organization of former high - ranking military officials concerned about obesity and other health problems in military recruits and personnel, has issued a hard - hitting defense of USDA's school nutrition standards.
According to Al - Sharq al - Awsat, the key officials involved in Iran's military assistance to Sadr are Ali Agha Mohammadi, an advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; Bagher Zolghadr, the assistant head of the IRGC; Ghasem Sulaymani, the commander of the Qods Corps; Murtada Rada'i, head of the IRGC intelligence service; and Hassan Kazimi Qummi, a former assistant head of the IRGC who was appointed Iranian charge d'affaires in Iraq.
In what is considered as beginning of probe of Mugabe's government, Mnangagwa has ordered arrest of former officials who fled the country when the military toppled the veteran ruler last month.
Sometimes last year, a former top military officer and a governor issued an official statement accusing Federal Government of being behind terrorism activities in North - East.
According one of his aides who disclosed the development, the former military administrator of Kaduna state raised the draft and tendered it to the EFCC officials in Abuja.
New York is directing state conservation officials to write a plan for protecting Long Island drinking water from a plume of contaminants and chemicals from the former military plane manufacturing site in Bethpage.
The inquiry heard from over 100 witnesses, including Mr Blair, Mr Brown, former Downing St communications director Alastair Campbell and a host of former ministers, military officials and intelligence chiefs.
She is a military veteran and former state and federal government official.
The WMD Center, a nonprofit that grew of out of a congressional commission, consists of former politicians and retired military brass who have joined up with clinicians and public health officials.
We then meet the members of the Arizona Border Recon, a group of former military and law enforcement officials who take it upon themselves to patrol and keep watch over the Arizona - Mexico border with guns in hand.
Bethel approached officials at Fort Belvoir, along with Art League volunteer and former military personnel Carla Amerau, hoping to create a program that would give recovering veterans a chance to make art.
According to Sohbet Karbuz, a military energy analyst and former International Energy Agency official, there are multiple factors pushing the Department of Defense (DoD) to go green, including «increasing fuel costs, logistics pains and the delicate fuel distribution network.»
Their board of directors is composed of high - ranking retired military officers, public servants including current and former US Senators, and former government officials.
In the run up to the official launch of the Swiftboat campaign, Morano wrote, «hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a signed letter that he is «unfit to be commander - in - chief.»»
These days, most discussions about war crimes bring to mind current or former Bush Administration officials like John Yoo, or even Vice President Cheney, for their endorsement of the use of torture in military interrogations overseas in violation of the Geneva Convention.