{"id":25727,"date":"2018-02-09T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/09\/trump-to-nominate-adm-harry-harris-for-australian-ambassadorship\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:21:15","slug":"trump-to-nominate-adm-harry-harris-for-australian-ambassadorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2018\/02\/09\/trump-to-nominate-adm-harry-harris-for-australian-ambassadorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to nominate Adm. Harry Harris to be next US ambassador to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump intends to nominate Pacific Command leader Adm. Harry Harris to be the next U.S. ambassador to Australia, the White House announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A press release lauded Harris as \u201ca highly decorated, combat proven Naval officer with extensive knowledge, leadership and geo-political expertise in the Indo-Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris is expected to retire from the Navy this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to leading PACOM, Harris has helmed Pacific Fleet and 6th Fleet during his 39-year career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaders of commands like PACOM generally spend three years in the position, a mark Harris will hit in May. His successor has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris has in recent years pushed a hard line regarding Chinese island building in the South China Sea, a strategy he warned was \u201cmilitarizing\u201d those waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/04\/25\/adm-harry-harris-the-military-s-hard-line-commander-in-the-pacific-comes-to-capitol-hill\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adm-harry-harris-head-of-us-pacific-command.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Adm. Harry Harris, the military&#8217;s hard-line commander in the Pacific, comes to Capitol Hill<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The new administration has signaled that they see North Korea as the single greatest threat to U.S. security in the world. That puts Harris dead in the center of regional forces that could end in catastrophe if it&#039;s not carefully managed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called out China for creating this \u201cgreat wall of sand\u201d during a conference in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/04\/25\/adm-harry-harris-the-military-s-hard-line-commander-in-the-pacific-comes-to-capitol-hill\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">2015<\/a>, a move he cautioned was seeding chaos in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate will vote to confirm Harris\u2019 nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A White House press release lauded the outgoing Pacific Command head and his experience in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[45,160,11,16,36,48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3483],"class_list":["post-25727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news-roundup","category-global","category-naval","category-newsletters","category-the-americas"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"QLZGHWMFXRD5LDSSKUKPKNDI3Q","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/02\/09\/trump-to-nominate-adm-harry-harris-for-australian-ambassadorship\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump to nominate Adm. 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