Michele Flournoy is expected to be nominated today by President-Elect Barack Obama as the first female Under Secretary for Policy in the Pentagon.
Her appointment will be greeted on both sides of the Atlantic with a huge sigh of relief. The policy position became hugely controversial in the Bush years when Douglas Feith occupied the post and argued strongly for the invasion of Iraq as a manifestation of the preeminence of Pentagon power.
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