FREE STORY: Will Shanahan be the next Pentagon chief?

Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan is angling to become permanent Pentagon chief, with his closest supporters highlighting his role in key areas, like navigating internal politics to deliver a final Space Force proposal, helping to engineer billions in budget increases and working to pivot President Trump away from planned troop withdrawals in the Middle East that had initially alarmed military leaders.

Several senior administration officials talked to Inside Defense about Shanahan's journey to a possible nomination as defense secretary.

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