Meet Gen. Charles Brown: US Air Force chief tapped to be Pentagon's top general

Brown is unlikely to face the heated internal debates over deployments to the Middle East that his predecessors faced during the Trump administration, experts said.

“For the first time in a long time, there’s real synchronicity between OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense], CENTCOM and the National Security Council on what US military engagement in the Middle East should look like,” said Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank.

Yet conflicts in the region have never abided by Washington’s timelines. Israeli national security officials are increasingly worried over Iran’s capabilities surrounding its nuclear program and potential weaponization, Al-Monitor has reported.

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