From the moment he was appointed last year, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel had a troubled relationship with President Barack Obama’s tight-knit White House national security team. As the bombing intensified in Iraq and Syria, so did his problems.
US officials with knowledge of Hagel’s relationship with the Obama administration described increasingly uneasy ties between Hagel’s Pentagon and the White House — although not between the two men themselves.
While the White House portrayed Hagel’s abrupt departure as a mutually agreed decision with Obama, the officials described a succession of worsening problems, including most recently Hagel’s arguing for a more defined strategy to …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
