Douglas Lute

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Douglas Lute (2013)

Douglas Edward Lute (born November 3, 1952 in Michigan City , Indiana ) is a former soldier in the US Forces and from 2013 to 2017 Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO with the rank of Ambassador .

The former lieutenant general of the US Army led from 2007 to 2009 under the administration of US President George W. Bush , the newly created post of Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan (dt about. "Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan ”).

Military career

Douglas Lute with Assistant Secretary of State Mark Kimmitt at a press conference (2007).

Lute graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1975 . Its first use was in command of the C Troop of the 2nd Armored US Cavalry Regiment in Bindlach near Bayreuth in Germany. He holds a Masters degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has taught at West Point's Department of Social Sciences .

After graduating from Staff College of the British Army , he returned as an operations officer to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, where he served at both battalion and regimental levels . From 1990 to 1991 he was with the regiment during the Second Gulf War , Operation Desert Storm , in Saudi Arabia and Iraq . He then served on the staff of the Chief of Staff of the Army Gordon R. Sullivan .

After this staff assignment, Lute commanded the 1st Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in Fort Hood ( Texas ) from 1992 to 1994 . He was then transferred to the Department of Defense , where he served in the Directorate for Strategic Planning and Policies ( J-5 ) of the Joint Staff . He also held a teaching position (fellowship) from War College at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington.

From 1998 to 2000 he commanded the 2nd US Cavalry Regiment of the XVIII. Airborne Corps in Fort Polk ( Louisiana ). He was then executive assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Henry H. Shelton , for 14 months , before he was again transferred to Germany to take on the post of assistant division commander of the 1st US Infantry Division . In 2002 he commanded the multinational east brigade of KFOR in Kosovo for six months and in January 2003 took over the position of deputy director for operations of the US European Command (EUCOM) in Stuttgart-Vaihingen . In June 2004 he was transferred to US Central Command (CENTCOM) at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida , where he took over the position of Director of Operations (J-3) for more than two years until 2006. During this period, US troops were involved in combat missions in the Iraq war and Afghanistan, as well as other missions in the Middle East , Central Asia and the Horn of Africa . He then returned to Washington DC, where he became Director of Operations (J-3) for the Joint Staff from September 2006 .

On May 15, 2007, Lute was nominated by US President George W. Bush for the newly created office of Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan . In the US media he was therefore subsequently referred to as the "war tsar". His task is to coordinate the operations and strategies of the US military in the Iraq war and in the war in Afghanistan . In this capacity, Lute reported to Stephen Hadley , National Security Advisor . In contrast to Hadley, Lute should have direct authority to direct all branches of the armed forces and the US Department of Defense, although the new position was only that of a lieutenant general and the regional commanders were thus higher up than him. His nomination was preceded by a lengthy search for candidates. Before Lute was nominated, President Bush had asked at least three retired generals to take up the position, but all of them declined. The US Senate approved the nomination on June 28th. With the swearing-in of Donald Trump and the accompanying new government , he resigned the post of ambassador to NATO on January 20, 2017.

Lute kept the work focus on Afghanistan and Iraq under the newly elected US President Barack Obama in 2009, but with the modification that Lute no longer speaks to the President personally, but belongs to the staff of National Security Advisor James L. Jones.

Others

Douglas Lute is the former UN employees Jane Holl Lute married that from April 2009 to April 2013 as Deputy Minister of Internal Security ( Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security officiated). They have two daughters together.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards :

Web links

Commons : Douglas E. Lute  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Army 3-star picked to be 'war czar' ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (MarineCorpsTimes.com, May 15, 2007; English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marinecorpstimes.com
  2. ↑ The three generals were John J. Sheehan (former NATO general), Jack Keane (former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army) and Joseph W. Ralston (former NATO general).
  3. ↑ Bush Names Lute to New Post to Support Iraq, Afghanistan Ops (defenselink.mil, May 16, 2007; English)
  4. ↑ Senate confirms Lute as 'war czar' ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (MarineCorpsTimes.com, June 28, 2007; English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marinecorpstimes.com
  5. ↑ War Czar for Bush to Keep His Job (NYTimes.com, January 13, 2009; English)
personal data
SURNAME Lute, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lute, Douglas Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military, Lieutenant General of the United States Army, Chief Coordinator in the Iraq War and the Afghan War
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan City , Indiana