On the 8th (local time), President-elect Joe Biden officially nominated Lloyd Austin, former commander of the Central Command, a former four-star general as the Secretary of Defense.
Reuters and others reported that Biden-elect’s acquisition committee made a statement on the day and made such a statement.
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Former Central Commander Lloyd Austin, appointed as the first secretary of defense in the Biden administration. /AP Yonhap News
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When Austin passes the Senate confirmation hearing, the first black defense secretary in US history is born. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) in 1975, served in the military for 41 years, and then discharged in 2016.
Overseas, he worked mainly in Europe and the Middle East, and it is known that he has no special experience in East Asia such as China or Korea.
Austin became the first Deputy Chief of Staff of the Black U.S. Army in 2012, and a year later he took over as commander of the Central Army, leading the strategy to fight the Islamic State of extremist terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria.
