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What makes Jones unusual is that after his tour as commandant came to an end, he didn't muster out. Instead, he went overseas as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, a job that since the Cold War's end has been as much about diplomacy as about war-fighting. That...
• Has served in politically sensitive roles as a top aide to the Marine commandant in the late 1980s and as military assistant to Defense Secretary William Cohen in the late 1990s.
While getting up to speed on the complexity of the international challenges he will face, Obama will start filling the senior national-security posts in the new Administration. Candidates for secretary of state are believed to include former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Chuck Hagel, a GOP senator from Nebraska...
To minimize mistakes, the Air Force routinely conducts "pattern of life" studies of Taliban leaders and other key targets, using camera-carrying drones to plot their travels for days or weeks. That enables U.S. planners to figure out when the targets can be attacked without jeopardizing innocent lives. But not...
James Jones is a retired four-star Marine general who served as NATO's top commander from 2003 to 2006 after a stint as the Marine Corps' commandant. He gets bipartisan praise from those he has worked with in the military and civilian worlds. Curiously enough, he served as one...