GENERAL JOHN ALLEN,U.S. MARINE CORPS (RET.); DISTINGUISHED FELLOW OF FOREIGN POLICY, THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION General John R. Allen, USMC (Ret.), is a 38-year veteran of the Marine Corps ...

Of all the members of President Obama's new national security team, Lt. Gen. John R. Allen, tapped as the fourth commander in two years to run the war in Afghanistan, may have the toughest assignment.

a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general, and a former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Articles by John R. Allen U.S. President ...

110718-N-TT977-138 U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John R. Allen, U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander, International Security Assistance Force and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm.

Iraq veteran Gen John R Allen is credited with having ... The following decade, Gen Allen started to lead major Marine Corps deployments overseas, including the 1995-6 Operation Joint Endeavor ...

John R. Allen ... Joseph Dunford was nominated to succeed Allen as ISAF commander. Dunford is currently the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps. His confirmation hearing was set for the ...

John R. Allen, president of the Brookings Institution, is a retired four-star Marine Corps general who served as special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (now ISIS ...

EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS General John R. Allen has stepped down as president of the Brookings Institution after he was accused of lying and obstructing an FBI probe connected to an illegal lobbying ...

John Allen lobbied the US government on behalf ... District of California that the investigation of General John R. Allen (Ret.) has been closed and that no criminal charges will be brought ...

John R. Allen, a retired four-star Marine general ... Dunford Jr., the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, as the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan. The milestone, which still ...