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U.S. Defense Secretary Denounces Israel’s Strike on Aid Workers in Gaza

A bristling phone call reflected a shift in Lloyd J. Austin III’s tone toward his Israeli counterpart as he stressed the need for better protection of aid workers.

A destroyed car used by World Central Kitchen after an Israeli strike in Gaza this week. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III upbraided his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, over the deadly attack.

As Biden-Netanyahu Rift Grows, Israel’s Defense Minister Aims to Shore Up Support

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant,

Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, with his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, at the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Praises NATO Allies for Commitment to Ukraine

Par : Lara Jakes
The American defense secretary told a meeting of Kyiv’s backers that the fight against Russia “remains one of the great causes of our time.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, center right, was in Germany on Tuesday for the start of a semiregular meeting of nearly 50 nations who are supplying Ukraine’s forces.

Exclusive—Rep. Matt Gaetz: Lloyd Austin Must Face Consequences for His Failure and Hypocrisy

It’s long past time for Congress to grant the 8,600 service members who were discharged from the military for making a personal medical decision the same grace Secretary Lloyd Austin seeks for himself but hypocritically refuses to extend to others.

Defense Secretary Admits Being Unreachable in Hospital, Blames Staff for Not Telling Biden Sooner

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed there was no break in the chain of command when he was hospitalized in January for days without telling President Biden, but admitted on Thursday it was actually his aides who made a decision to transfer his authorities to his deputy when he could not be reached and blamed his staff for not telling the president about his hospitalization sooner.

'Nothing Embarrassing' Happened Here: Democrats Defend Lloyd Austin for Keeping Hospitalization Secret for Days

Democrats on Thursday during a congressional hearing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended his failure to inform President Joe Biden that he was in the hospital for three full days amid two wars and troops being under attack in Iraq and Syria.

Watch Live: House Questions Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Secret Hospitalization

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will appear before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, February 29, to testify about keeping his hospitalization a secret in January.

U.S., UK Resume Air Strikes Against Yemen's Huthis

Combined U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh wave of strikes Saturday against 18 Huthi targets in Yemen, hitting back after weeks of attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed rebels.

Austin, Speaking by Video, Reiterates U.S. Support for Ukraine

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke on Wednesday to a U.S.-led group that marshals military aid to Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington earlier this month.

Lloyd Austin Taken to Hospital for Bladder Issue

Doctors at Walter Reed said Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III was in a critical care unit. The Pentagon said he had transferred his duties to his deputy.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III came under widespread criticism last month when he went to the hospital for several days without disclosing it to the White House.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Back in Hospital for an 'Emergent Bladder Issue'

The Pentagon announced Sunday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is back in the hospital, weeks after a lengthy hospitalization following prostate cancer treatment and subsequent complications.

Austin Says Iran Trains and Funds Militias Targeting U.S. Troops

President Biden has promised to respond to attacks that killed three American service members at a base in Jordan.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s remarks came as the United States and the Iran-backed Houthis engaged in a flurry of back-and-forth strikes.

Biden Urged to Re-examine Israel Support After Lawsuit Dismissed

The judge, after expressing regret that he was limited by constitutional precedent, urged President Biden to rethink U.S. policy on Israel’s military siege in the Gaza Strip.

Five days after a hearing at the federal courthouse in Oakland, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White dismissed a lawsuit by Palestinian Americans seeking to block U.S. support of Israel’s military campaign.

Palestinian Americans’ Lawsuit in Oakland Seeks to Halt U.S. Support for Israel

The case, filed in Federal District Court in Northern California, is unlikely to succeed, given legal precedents regarding foreign policy decisions. But it has energized pro-Palestinian activists.

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento this month.

Biden Orders More Airstrikes Against Iran-Backed Terrorists in Iraq

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday announced American forces conducted airstrikes against Kataib Hezbollah (KH), one of the largest and most aggressive Iran-backed Shiite militia groups in Iraq.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Makes First Public Appearance After Hospitalization

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an appearance for the first time this year after he was hospitalized on January 1 for complications stemming from a surgery to treat prostate cancer in December.

U.S. Strikes 3 Iran-Linked Militia Sites in Iraq

The strikes were “in direct response” to a series of attacks by Iranian-sponsored militias against U.S. and coalition personnel in Iraq and Syria, the defense secretary said.

A fighter of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah militia group in Hilla, Iraq, last year.

Housebound Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin to Host Virtual Meeting of Ukraine Allies

The U.S. will host the monthly gathering of some 50 countries struggling to meet Ukraine's demands for the support it needs to repel Russia, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin convening events from home Tuesday via a Zoom call.

Lloyd Austin Confronts the Perils of Being a Private Man in a Public Job

President Biden said his defense secretary made an error in judgment in not keeping the White House informed of his hospitalization. But keeping a low profile has long defined the Pentagon chief.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the former commander of United States Central Command, brought 40 years of service with him when he took the top Pentagon job in 2021.

Pentagon: Austin Takes Responsibility, We've Given Many Details About 'Deeply Personal Issue'

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder stated that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin takes complete responsibility for the failure to inform people of his absence and “this is a deeply personal issue and

Pentagon on Biden Not Knowing Austin Was Out: They Talk a Lot, It Was 'a Holiday Period'

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh responded to questions on why President Joe Biden didn’t know about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s absence since the two should talk frequently by stating that they

Pennsylvania House Democrat Chris Deluzio Calls for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Resign

Rep. Chris Deluzio (PA) became the first Democrat to call on Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin to resign after he was hospitalized on January 1 but did not tell President Biden.

House Armed Services Republicans Demand Lloyd Austin Respond to Formal Inquiry Launch

All Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday demanded Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin respond to the committee chairman's launching a formal inquiry into his disappearance.

Clyburn: 'Maybe' Austin Should Have Said Something Sooner

On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Biden 2024 Campaign Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “Maybe” should have told people about his health issues and hospitalization sooner, the story “Absolutely” does

Lloyd Austin: A General Crisis

Par : Jude Russo
Politics

Lloyd Austin: A General Crisis

Lloyd Austin’s little unauthorized jaunt is just the administrative state’s latest adventure in unfettered power.

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The Roman republic was constituted by parceling out the functions of a king—specifically a चक्रवर्तिन्, cakravartin, the idealized Indo-European sacred king—among magistrates, officers, and priests. Among these was the flamen dialis, the high priest of Jupiter. He would not wear a hat to show that there was nothing above him but heaven, and he would not wear garments with knots to show that nothing could bind him but the almighty; in his office lay the very kernel of sovereignty, the taproot of the Roman state. An army in battle array was not permitted to appear before him, lest the temptation to unite the civilian and the military, to revive that dead dismembered king, prove too strong. It is from the separation of civilian and military, and the primacy of civilian, that all subsequent Western political theology arises. 

It is a matter of some concern, then, that Gen. Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, is missing. Or at least, he was missing; we’ve been told that he’s back. He was missing only for three days—reportedly in a hospital ward, an intensive care unit with the maimed and desperately ill, following a surgery—for complications from cancer, the Secretary of Defense has cancer of the prostate—didn’t you know that?

The White House didn’t. The Biden administration is having a shocking attack of honesty and is admitting it doesn’t know all kinds of things. The timeline as we now know it is as follows: Sometime in the mists of the past, Austin started to receive treatment for prostate cancer, which involved a December 22 surgery. On January 1, Austin was hospitalized with a consequent urinary tract infection and was wheeled over to the ICU for recuperation. On January 4, the Pentagon notified the administration. On January 5, the Pentagon notified Congress, and Austin was discharged from the ICU the same day. On January 9, Austin notified the White House of the cancer.

The president—the civilian head of government in America, the leader of the free world—went three days without knowing the whereabouts of the official through whom he controls the military. Nor does it appear any of his staff knew. (Kathleen Hicks, the deputy secretary of defense, did know and reportedly assumed some of Austin’s duties—remotely from sunny Puerto Rico, where she was vacationing at the time.) The fault appears to lie entirely with Austin and the Pentagon. Austin said as much in a written statement: “I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. I commit to doing better. But this is important to say: This was my medical procedure, and I take full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure.”

Even the administration’s trustiest boosters—the Washington Post editorial board, for example—seem taken aback. While the United States is not formally at war, it is funding and supplying a conflict with a nuclear-armed power in the Ukraine–Russia war, and it is involved as a reluctant supplier-cum-referee in Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza. The Houthi militants in Yemen are expanding on their latest foray into Red Sea piracy. Things are happening, things that might involve the American military. Indeed, as Austin was napping at the end of a glucose drip, the American forces that inscrutably remain in the Middle East suffered multiple drone and missile attacks; in turn, American forces bombarded militants in the environs of Baghdad.

Biden’s amen corner is learning a hard truth: The American war machine runs itself, and considers itself accountable to no civilian leader. When the president is hostile to its preferred policies, the Pentagon simply refuses to comply with his orders, and top generals call foreign governments to tell them not to worry, the president isn’t really in charge; when the president is friendlier, they evidently don’t even bother with the courtesy of letting him know what they’re up to. (One wonders: Does the Post editorial board regret its attack on Alabama’s Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s attempt to exert a modicum of civilian control over military activities?)

Cries of outrage and demands for accountability have emanated from Congress, including from Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. “The Secretary of Defense serves as the linchpin through which the President commands and controls our armed forces. The DoD’s failure to inform the White House, Congress, and the American People of Secretary Austin’s incapacitation reflects the lack of leadership, competency, and transparency throughout the entire Biden administration,” Gaetz said in a January 8 press release calling for an Armed Services Committee hearing about the episode.

Gaetz is right; this situation is a problem. Who is in charge of this democratic republic, anyway? It doesn’t seem to be the democratically elected representatives. The arrogance of the American defense establishment is the only match for the arrogance of the federal law enforcement apparatus; they are different symptoms of the same fever. The cluster of pressing issues facing the country today—border protection, crime, national security, foreign policy, trade, even abortion—arise basically from a crisis of sovereignty. Is the duly elected government of the American nation in charge, or is someone or something else? We know what the answer should be; may our politicians have the will to act on it.

The post Lloyd Austin: A General Crisis appeared first on The American Conservative.

Chris Deluzio First Hill Democrat to Call for Lloyd Austin's Resignation

Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to resign over Austin's lack of transparency about his recent medical treatment.

Tuberville: The Same Austin Who Went 'AWOL' Lectured Me About Hurting Military Readiness

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) responded to the hospitalization of Lloyd Austin, which the White House was not informed of, by pointing out that Austin himself accused Tuberville of endangering military readiness.

Ratcliffe: Austin Incident Shows Entire Biden NatSec Team Doesn't Care About Attacks on Troops

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” John Ratcliffe, who served as Director of National Intelligence during the Trump administration, stated that while Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin deserves plenty of critical focus, the incident “is really

FNC's Dr. Siegel: Biden Admin. Is Being Dishonest, Austin's Surgery Was 'Major' and Non-Elective

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Fox News Medical Contributor and Clinical Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine Dr. Marc Siegel stated that the Biden administration is still not being straightforward about Defense Secretary Lloyd

CNN's Dr. Reiner: Austin Seems to Have Been 'Unstable' and Admin.'s Story Makes No Sense

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences Professor and CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who also advised the White House medical team under President George W. Bush stated that the Biden administration’s

Lloyd Austin Scandal Spreads: White House Launches Government-Wide Review of Cabinet Delegation Protocols

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients is launching a review of protocols for cabinet members delegating authority, after Austin hid an emergency hospitalization from Biden for several days last week.

China Calls Biden 'Inadequate' over Lloyd Austin Absence -- After Year of Vanishing Chinese Officials

China's state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times declared President Joe Biden "inadequate" and his administration "disorderly" on Monday over the secret hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – a criticism levied nearly five months after the still-unexplained disappearance of now-former Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu.

CNN's Clapper: Austin's Secret Hospitalization Isn't a Big Deal, He's 'an Introvert' and His Security Knew Where He Was

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN National Security Analyst and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper argued that the outcry over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin being hospitalized in secret is “making a mountain out of a molehill”

Fmr. Obama Official: Austin Should Resign, So Should 'Several' Other Officials

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Brett Bruen, who served as Director of Global Engagement under President Barack Obama, stated that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should resign and that should be one of “several resignations here, including his chief of

'Austin's Going Nowhere' -- Biden Not Considering Sacking Defense Secretary Who Failed to Disclose Hospitalization

Par : Amy Furr · Amy Furr
Although Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin failed to inform the White House about his recent hospitalization, President Joe Biden (D) is not considering firing him, Politico reported Monday.

Trump Tells Biden to Fire Lloyd Austin for 'Improper Professional Conduct'

Par : Paul Bois · Paul Bois
Former President Donald Trump publicly called on President Joe Biden to fire Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for the delayed announcement about his hospitalization.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Hiding His Hospitalization from Biden, Others, Rocks Washington

Washington remained in collective shock on Sunday, as more information trickled out about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's failure to disclose that he was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit for days without telling the president, the national security adviser, members of Congress, and the public.

GOP Outraged over Defense Secretary’s ‘Secret’ Hospitalization: ‘Inexcusable and Dangerous’

Republican officials are expressing outrage over the Biden administration’s Department of Defense “lack of transparency” after the revelation it hid the fact Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for days, raising serious queries about the maintenance of security during that period.

‘Shocking Breakdown’ -- Cotton Demands Consequences After Defense Secretary Hid Hospitalization from Biden, NSC

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) demanded in a statement that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin explain why he did not notify President Joe Biden and the National Security Council that he was hospitalized for more than three days.

Sen. Roger Wicker Calls for a Briefing from the Pentagon After It Hid Austin's Hospitalization

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker, slammed the Pentagon for its "shocking defiance of the law" after it failed to disclose Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization to the president, the National Security Council, and Congress for several days, and called for a briefing from the administration "immediately."

Pentagon Reveals Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin Was Admitted to Hospital on New Year's Day

The Pentagon on Friday evening revealed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to the hospital four days earlier, on New Year's Day, January 1.
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