Recent reporting suggests that the US Department of Defense (DoD) is reviewing its global command structure, amongst which the position of SACEUR, NATO’s most senior military position is under scrutiny to be abolished.
General Dwight Eisenhower the first SACEUR, and Lord Hastings Ismay Winston Churchill’s chief military assistant during World War II and the first Secretary General of NATO at NATO’s HQ, Paris in 1952. The shield of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe is on the left.
Read my Ariadne’s Dispatches post on this topic here
