DefenceTalkDefenceTalkPresident-elect Joe Biden has chosen Lloyd Austin, who led US troops into Baghdad in 2003 and rose to head the US Central Command, as the first African-American secretary of defense, US media reported Monday. A veteran of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the retired four-star army general, 67, beat out the favorite for the job, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/biden-picks-general-lloyd-austin-as-first-black-pentagon-chief-76594/