The Bin Laden Raid: Inside the Situation Room Photo
The image captures a defining historic moment, as Barack Obama and his top advisers anxiously watch the high-stakes SEAL Team Six operation unfold.
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The image captures a defining historic moment, as Barack Obama and his top advisers anxiously watch the high-stakes SEAL Team Six operation unfold.
In the universe of historic photographs, few are more iconic this this image of key White House policymakers watching and waiting for confirmation that SEAL Team Six had succeeded in capturing or killing Osama bin Laden.
By RACHAEL RILEY | The Fayetteville Observer | Published: April 28, 2021 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) New leaders will be welcomed within the special operations community at Fort Bragg, according to recent Department of Defense announcements. In a news release Monday, it was announced that Brig. Gen. Steven Marks, deputy commanding general of the 1st Special Forces command, wouldn t travel for his next assignment to become the deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. A replacement for Marks s current role has not yet been announced. On March 25, a news release from the Department of Defense stated that Maj. Gen. Richard Angle, deputy commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, will be the new commander of the 1st Special Forces Command.
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A media-shy Lloyd Austin works behind the scenes to carry out the president s plans.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin listens to a reporter s question while addressing the media in Berlin, Germany. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Lloyd Austin was sitting in his car in a church parking lot after Saturday night mass when he got the call that would change his life. The phone clicked, and a voice asked him if he would please hold for the president-elect. That’s when Joe Biden asked Austin to make history as the first Black man to lead the Pentagon.
For Austin, a physically imposing but intensely private man, this was not the plan. After retiring from the military as a four-star general in 2016, Austin settled into the private sector. He never built the traditional Washington political network, or campaigned for a post in the administration.
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An investigation into President Joe Biden’s foreign policy record reveals “the history of the evolution of the American empire, from the Vietnam War to the present,” says Jeremy Scahill, award-winning journalist and co-founder of The Intercept, which recently published a project titled “Empire Politician” that examines Biden’s stances on war and militarism. Scahill says Joe Biden is the first president in decades to come to the White House after spending significant time in Congress, but it’s not clear whether that will push him toward greater restraint in matters of war and peace. “Biden has spent his entire life railing against executive overreach, demanding that Congress be in charge of declaring war, and he may well be presented with a conflict around the world where it’s going to really call the question on which Joe Biden shows up: Joe Biden, commander in chief, or Joe Biden who spent most of the