America's capabilities will suffer at the hands of the duly reelected Commander in Chief and his duly appointed Defense Secretary.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chuck Hagel - It's the anti-Americanism, stupid
Newly-appointed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced plans to deploy 14 more ground-based long-range missile interceptors in Fort Greely, Alaska by 2017.
But court-appointed defense attorneys Nikolai Gerasimov and Kirill Goncharov petitioned for the trial to be put off until May so that they could study the case files.
Gadhafi is in a "legal black hole, " held for 139 days in "total isolation" except for visits from officials, his ICC-appointed defense said in a strongly worded statement.
Sergei Ivanov, whom Mr. Putin appointed defense minister in March.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Start the Clock on the End of the A.B.M. Treaty
Since Netanyahu appointed him Defense Minister, Barak has been racking up frequent flier miles on the Tel-Aviv-Washington line.
On Monday, a federal judge appointed prominent defense lawyer Judy Clarke to represent the wounded suspect, who could be sentenced to death if convicted.
First, a new chief judge was appointed, then the defense lawyers walked out in protest.
Defense lawyers appointed to al-Senussi welcomed the ICC's order for Libya to surrender their client.
CNN: ICC orders Libya to hand over Gadhafi's former spy chief
The independent panel on coed training in the military had been appointed in June by Defense Secretary William Cohen because of the 1996 sex scandal at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, where drill sergeants preyed on young recruits.
In 2009 General Petersen was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to serve on the Military Leadership Diversity Commission.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
In 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Debouzy to France's Defense and National Security White Paper Commission.
The 863 Program took much of its shape from the American research system used by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense: the government appointed panels of experts, who drew up research priorities, called for bids, and awarded contracts.
He's executive director of the self-appointed border guards, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
Under new guidelines, the accused can have two defense lawyers -- one appointed by the Vatican, the other by the defendant -- to present his case.
Onetime deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, later appointed ambassador to Austria.
As a result of these incidents, the Air Force's senior leadership was replaced and a task force led by former Secretary of Defense Dr. James Schlesinger was appointed to review the nuclear mission as handled by the Air Force.
Ri Yong Ho was appointed vice marshal and vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, the body considered the most powerful in North Korea.
On another front, in an extraordinary development military prosecutors at one point joined defense lawyers in objecting to the colonel appointed as the presiding judge, because they said he was too subject to influence by the chain of command.
Jiang appointed him army chief in 1992, while Chi remained defense minister -- a figurehead with little real authority.
Martin's family and the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the case have rejected Zimmerman's self-defense claim, saying they believe Zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher who advised him to stop following Martin, racially profiled the young man and unjustly killed him.
Before President Bush appointed him to the position, he spent much of his career working for defense contractors, according his Army biography.
He was one of six former secretaries of Defense, and other former high officials, including two CIA directors appointed by Clinton, who urged rejection of the treaty.
The three most common categories of people to make it to the top of the defense acquisition system civil servants, military officers and politically-appointed academics generally have less experience with the business world than just about any other group of adults you could name.
Zhang, 67, was appointed vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) last year, along with Defense Minister Chi Haotian, 66.
应用推荐