Indian-American gets key Pentagon position

[Adnan Faruqi]

Vikram Singh, an Indian-American appointed to key Pentagon position

WASHINGTON: Indian American security expert Vikram J. Singh has been appointed to the key post of deputy assistant secretary of defence for South and Southeast Asia at the Pentagon.

Singh, who previously served as special assistant in the office of the under secretary of defence (Policy), has also been appointed to the senior executive service, a defence department announcement said.

He replaces Robert Scher, who has been assigned as deputy assistant secretary of defence for plans.

In his previous job Singh worked on policy issues, including stability operations and counter-insurgency capabilities; disaster response and humanitarian assistance; oversight of peacekeeping missions; and the 2006 Quadrennial Defence Review.

Singh alse served as senior defence advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, the special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Before joining Holbrooke's staff, he was senior director for counter-insurgency policy at the Pentagon and a member of the Department of Defence team for the White House Strategy Review for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Singh returned to government service in February 2009 after two years as a fellow at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington think tank.

At CNAS he worked on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Asia policy issues, and a range of defence strategy and planning projects.

From 1999 through 2001, Vikram managed a five-country Ford Foundation project on minority rights and security in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo.

http://articles.economictimes.india...istan-and-pakistan-richard-holbrooke-pentagon

Indian-American gets key Pentagon position - World News - IBNLive

 

[DF-41 ICBM]

Probably an Indian spy.

 

[IndoCarib]

Probably an Indian spy.

We are taking a leaf out of china's book

 

[Mercenary]

Bad news for Pakistan.

 

[kalu_miah]

Bad news for Pakistan.

Yes, bad news from Bangladesh as well. That is why I support regional groups and reduce dependence on outside powers.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

When have been an good news for indians , have been a good news to pakistanis as well ?
He is not an spy..
Indians are trustworthy, thats y Obama is making many indians to top positions in USA....
I can start smelling burning here...
Somebody smoking

Yes, bad news from Bangladesh as well. That is why I support regional groups and reduce dependence on outside powers.

care to explain?

 

[kalu_miah]

Trust and Indian, these two words cannot go together. Indians are good at fooling people and its very hard to catch their deception, unless of course you become victim, like we, people of East Bengal, have been from time immemorial.

 

[Tamizhan]

care to explain?

It is the eternal quest for significance, to keep saying "I also exist in this world, dont forget me".Nowadays India doesn't even care much for Pakistanis and these sad Bangladeshis tag along with them hoping to be noticed.

In other words - "Naanum rowdy thaan, naanum rowdy thaan".

 

[Raphael]

Names: Vikram Singh promoted at Pentagon | The Cable

foreignpolicy had a post about this.

hmm, he looks ratty and untrustworthy. he should get his teeth fixed.

 

[IndoCarib]

Names: Vikram Singh promoted at Pentagon | The Cable

foreignpolicy had a post about this.

hmm, he looks ratty and untrustworthy. he should get his teeth fixed.

I dont think they consider looks for this post !

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Names: Vikram Singh promoted at Pentagon | The Cable

foreignpolicy had a post about this.

hmm, he looks ratty and untrustworthy. he should get his teeth fixed.

In his job he does'nt need photogenic teeth. He got the job because he has the Gonads (aka B@lls) for it.

BTW, are your teeth fixed already? Not much can be said about your looks otherwise, no.

 

[A1Kaid]

Bad news for Pakistan.

One Indian-American working at the Pentagon isn't going to make a difference in US foreign policy or operations.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

You're right about that. Think tanks and government positions usually do not care about looks or personal presentation skills, and as a result they tend to be staffed by ugly nerd types. Completely different selection criteria from the corporate world.

Now you're wisening up, huh?

Which is why the corporate world only gets to play with money, while the Goverment positions get to play with POWER!

Bad news for Pakistan.

Really? He will be working in Washington D.C. not New Delhi. Give that a thought.

 

[Raphael]

Not really true for the USA, where the government, at least since the Reagan era, has been completely subservient to corporations. The point I'm trying to make is that the government gets the ugly leftovers that couldn't make it in the corporate world. It's readily observable at the lowest end, where employees at the DMV and the post office look disheveled and barely human, whereas even the lowliest grunt of a corporation will look presentable, and this rule extends all the way to the top of the ladder.

 

[IndoCarib]

Some idiots born in a country with big population think that it automatically makes them more significant than other human beings on the planet. But then malnutrition can do a lot of strange things to people.

Yeah, in your country people are well fed ! May be that's why they sneak into India to get malnourished !