Xinhua News Agency, Washington, November 9 (Reporter Deng Xianlai and Sun Ding) U.S. President Trump announced on the 9th that he would remove the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and appointed Christopher Miller, director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, as the acting Secretary of Defense.
Esper is 56 years old and became the US Secretary of Defense in July 2019.
In December 2018, the then Secretary of Defense James Mattis resigned.
From January to June 2019, the post of Secretary of Defense was represented by Patrick Shanahan.