RETIRED GENERAL LLOYD AUSTIN LIKELY TO BE THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Highlights

• Biden on Monday said that he had made his choice and would be announcing it on Friday

• Austin was the assistant division commander of the 3rd Infantry Division in March 2003 at the time when it marched from Kuwait into Baghdad in the US invasion of Iraq

• While initially it was said that former under-secretary of defense Michele Flournoy had higher chances of getting the post, General ....