BERLIN — President Joe Biden plans to nominate Christine Wormuth, a former senior Pentagon official, to be the first woman to lead the Army, the White House said Monday.
If confirmed by the Senate as Army secretary, Wormuth would be one of the more powerful officials in a defence establishment long dominated by men. She would work with the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. James McConville, who does not command soldiers but is responsible, along with the Army secretary, for training and equipping them.
Biden has not yet nominated anyone to serve as Air Force or Navy secretary. Many other Pentagon positions that require Senate confirmation also have yet to be filled. The most senior Defence Department nominee still awaiting Senate confirmation is Colin Kahl, picked to be under secretary of defence for policy. His nomination emerged from committee on a 13-13 vote and it’s unclear when the full Senate will act.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who was traveling abroad when Wormuth’s nomination was announced, praised her track record.
“Christine is a true patriot with a dedicated career in service to America and our nation’s security,” he said in a prepared statement. He called her deeply experienced.
“I have no doubt that if confirmed she will lead our soldiers and represent their families with honour and integrity as the secretary of the Army,” Austin said.
Wormuth led Biden’s Pentagon transition team during the tumultuous period between the November election and Inauguration Day. She currently is director of the International Security and Defence Policy Center at the RAND Corp., a federally funded think-tank .
During the administration of former President Barack Obama, she served as the under secretary of defence for policy. She also served as the senior director for defence policy on Obama’s National Security Council and held other Defence Department positions.
Wormuth’s nomination would continue a Biden trend of choosing women and people of colour for top Defence Department jobs. Austin is the first Black secretary of defence, and Kathleen Hicks is the first woman to hold the job of deputy defence secretary.
The White House also announced the nominations of Gil Cisneros to be undersecretary of defence for personnel and readiness, and Susanna Blume as director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, a key office that provides independent analysis and evaluation of major defence programs and activities. She currently is the interim director of that office and has previously held senior staff positions in the Pentagon.
Cisneros is a former member of Congress and a Navy veteran.
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just what we need more estrogen in our military.
I know i am gonna get hell for saying this, but i honestly feel we have TOO MUCH estrogen in our military as is!
Let’s face it, the Biden Administration is a communist / liberal mess. Biden is a radical and anyone, male or female holding positions of power, in his Administration, is a radical. So the degradation of our society is rapidly taking place, under Biden.
If she’s qualified for the job, I don’t see a problem. Just as when Trump nominated Gina Haspel for the job of CIA Director.
Qualification for national defense is different from what a lefty deems a priority in the goal toward socialism/communism or what they sugar coat as “progressiveism”.
BIG thing here, is someone in charge of the CIA< is NOT defending our nation… THE MILITARY IS!
This is how you lead an Army into oblivion.
This confirms more of the IDIOCY of the Biden administration and those that support him. Hey let’s put someone in charge of the Army that has NOT served so much as a minute as a soldier. Stupidity at it’s best, and Biden and Harris are the king and queen of STUPIDITY!!!
AND makes me wonder, WHAT THE HELL was going through the brains of those, who are IN THE MILITARY, that voted for biden!
How did a white woman slip through the screaming (oops, meant screening) process? Nowhere in this article were any qualifications mentioned other than she was a woman
IF you have not noticed, to the left BEING A woman, being a black, being a LGBTQRA is ALL the qualifications they need, these days.
When the shooting starts and competence has been replaced by inexperience–yet political correctness, moms and dads of the all volunteer force can thank Joe Biden-Harris for the debacle and massacre(s) that follow.
Christine Wormuth may be an excellent candidate to lead the army but she will have to adhere to the policies of the Biden-Harris administration. The goal of the excessively woke Biden-Harris administration is to create a military that is more racially and sexually diverse and politically-correct by placing it under the control of leftists who will erode the troops’ esprit de corps and combat effectiveness by indoctrinating them with identity politics, Critical Race Theory, and other divisive nonsense. Instead of deterring our nation’s enemies, creating a military consisting of woke-indoctrinated solders will embolden them.
Are women going to sign up for the draft now ??? If a woman can lead a army, then why can’t they sign up for the draft
Because like always “THAT would be sexist!”
All bad actors in the world are laughing at American weakness. This woman is no Thatcher if she’s appointed by Biden, just a glorified social worker who will spend more time diversifying than training the army to fight.