Biden to nominate Wormuth to be first female Army secretary
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Pentagon veteran Christine Wormuth to be the first female Army secretary, the White House announced on Monday. Wormuth, a former top policy official at the Defense Department during the Obama administration, recently led Biden’s Pentagon agency review team through one of the most contentious transitions in modern history, and has been in and out of the Pentagon since she began her public service career in the policy office in 1996.
After a stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Wormuth returned to the Pentagon as a political appointee working on homeland defense in early 2009. In 2010, she moved to the National Security Council, where she directed defense policy and strategy, before returning once more to the Pentagon as deputy under secretary of defense for strategy, plans and force development in 2012. In that position, she led the department’s 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review. She rose to hold the Pentagon's top policy job in 2014.
As the Pentagon’s policy chief, Wormuth worked to carry out Obama’s pivot to the Asia-Pacific, and shaped the U.S. military’s counter-ISIS campaign alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who at the time was the commander of U.S. Central Command. Wormuth and Austin together weathered backlash over a costly program to train Syrian fighters that spent $500 million but trained only a handful of fighters.
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