Trump Picks Technocrats, Not Billionaires, For Top Pentagon Posts

Trump Picks Technocrats, Not Billionaires, For Top Pentagon Posts
Trump Picks Technocrats, Not Billionaires, For Top Pentagon Posts

WASHINGTON: President Trump will nominate Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan for Deputy Defense Secretary, one of six key Pentagon appointments announced today. All six have extensive service in government or, in Shanahan’s case, the defense industry. That’s a stark departure from the two billionaires with no prior government service Trump initially picked as secretaries of the Army and Navy, Vincent Viola and Philip…