US President-elect Donald Trump has offered the influential post of National Security Adviser to his trusted military adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Michael Flynn.
The Washington Post reported that the most influential national security job in the still forming Trump administration will likely go to a retired three-star general who helped dismantle insurgent networks in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, advised Trump during the campaign on national security issues and often served as an introductory speaker at campaign rallies.
Flynn had advocated cutting off aid to Pakistan, if it continued to help the jihadis. He said in his latest book ‘How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies’ that the countries like Pakistan need to be told that US will not tolerate the existence of training camps and safe havens for Taliban, Haqqani, and Al-Qaeda forces on their territory, nor will US permit their banks and other financial institutions to move illicit funds for the terror network.