Trump planlegger endringer i forsvarets politiske organer - Stars & Stripes

 

Samtidig skriver Defense Daily at Trump vil skifte om på sammensetningen av Defence Committee i Senatet. Hva dette innebærer i praksis er vanskelig for undertegnede å ha noen formening om, Det er enda et par måneder til han tar over formelt. Slike endringer er naturligvis en del av systemet. (Red.)

Wicker, supporter of Ukraine and more military spending, set to become chairman of Senate armed services panel

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Svetlana Shkolnikova

Stars and Stripes • November 6, 2024

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Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., center, speaks Sept. 12, 2024, at a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing in Washington. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the committee chairman, is on the left. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., is on the right. (Madelyn Keech/Department of Defense)

WASHINGTON — Republican Roger Wicker of Mississippi, a staunch ally of Ukraine and proponent of greater military spending, is set to become the next chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Wicker won reelection to the Senate on Tuesday night. With the Republican takeover of the upper chamber, he is in line next year to lead the panel that oversees the Defense Department and helps set defense policy.

Europe’s task amid looming new Trump term: a ‘wise plan’ to rebalance NATO

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John Vandiver

Stars and Stripes • November 6, 2024

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U.S. soldiers assigned to the 41st Field Artillery Brigade engage targets with a pair of high mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS, during an exercise in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, in May 2023. The reelection of Donald Trump as president will likely mean changes to the U.S. military’s mission in Europe. (John Schoebel/U.S. Army National Guard)

STUTTGART, Germany — Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House will likely transform the U.S. military’s mission in Europe, alter its relationship with NATO and upend the Pentagon’s whole strategy for assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Trump, who won Tuesday’s presidential election in a dominant showing that also saw Republicans retake the Senate, is now in prime position to settle business unfinished during his first term from 2017 to 2021.