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Pace Out as Chairman

June 8, 2007 RSS Feed Print

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Citing a possibly contentious confirmation battle focusing on past decisions on the Iraq war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will not renominate Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Instead, Adm. Michael Mullen, now the chief of naval operations, will be named to the post.

Pace became chairman under Gates’s predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, and represents the last of the most visible links among top brass to the Rumsfeld era. The general played a role in Rumsfeld’s attempts to transform the military into a more flexible force, a goal that has met with mixed results.

--Kent Allen

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