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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
President of the United States Donald trump remove Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Trump named the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Christopher Miller, as Esper’s replacement.
“Mark Esper has been fired. I want to thank him for his services,” Trump wrote via his Twitter account, as quoted. Tuesday (11/10).
Trump said the Senate had confirmed Miller’s appointment to replace Esper. According to him, Miller will do a great job.
“I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, director of the highly respected National Counter-Terrorism Center (confirmed unanimously by the Senate), will become Acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately,” Trump said.
Quoted from CNN, Esper’s increasingly strained relationship with Trump prompted him to prepare a resignation letter a few weeks ago. Esther has had an inharmonious relationship with Trump in recent months.
The rift deepened after Esper said in June that it did not support the use of active duty forces to quell large-scale protests in the United States sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. He also said that military forces were used in law enforcement only as a last resort.
Meanwhile, quoted from AFPEsper is Trump’s fourth Pentagon chief in the past four years. He was fired after 16 months of trying to stay politically inclined as he attempted fundamental reforms to the massive Pentagon bureaucracy and sought to reshape America’s defense postures around the world to focus on the Chinese threat.
But Trump was angered when Esper resisted pressure to deploy federal troops to quell civil unrest, and also curbed Trump’s desire for a total withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan as quickly as the violence continued in the country.
Meanwhile, Miller had a career in the military for 31 years. It was deployed to Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 with special forces. After retiring, he consulted for clandestine operations and government intelligence.
In 2018-2019 he was an adviser to the White House on counterterrorism and transnational threats. Later, Miller was appointed deputy deputy defense minister for special operations in 2019.
Later, Miller was appointed director of the National Counterterrorism Center in August 2020.
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