Jack Keane has some similarities to Mattis, who resigned due to policy disagreements with Trump.
At least a half dozen potential candidates have been floated to replace Jim Mattis as defense secretary since he resigned Thursday afternoon—including a contributor to President Donald Trump’s favorite news channel, Fox News.
Fox News national security analyst Jack Keane, a retired four-star U. S. Army general and Vietnam War veteran, has the military background that Trump likes. But Keane, who serves as chairman of the Washington, D. C.-based think tank Institute for the Study of War, does not see eye-to-eye with the president on all defense issues.
Keane said that Trump’s thought to cut the defense budget to $700 billion weeks ago “would be a huge mistake” and opined that the administration should instead boost the defense budget. Keane also criticized Trump’s budget director and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
“I think there’s a fox in the chicken coop, and that fox is the director of the OMB,” Keane said, referring to the Office of Management and Budget.
