{"id":51903,"date":"2021-08-10T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/10\/sasha-baker-tapped-for-lead-policy-role-at-pentagon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:46:50","slug":"sasha-baker-tapped-for-lead-policy-role-at-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/08\/10\/sasha-baker-tapped-for-lead-policy-role-at-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Baker tapped for lead policy role at Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 President Joe Biden will announce White House national security official Sasha Baker as his pick for deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, Defense News has learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker, the National Security Council\u2019s senior director for strategic planning, previously served as an adviser to progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/05\/16\/elizabeth-warren-announces-plan-to-unravel-military-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, D-Mass., and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/12\/31\/warren-a-critic-of-pentagon-bloat-and-nukes-heads-to-2020-presidential-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">the lawmaker\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign<\/a>. Progressives on Tuesday hailed the expected move, describing Baker as a leading progressive national security thinker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the Obama administration, Baker served as deputy chief of staff to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who spoke of her in glowing terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSasha was involved in every single important deliberation in the secretary\u2019s office, so all of our counterterror operations, cyber operations, the entire counter-[Islamic State] campaign,\u201d Carter told Defense News. \u201cShe was critical to all our outreach to the tech sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the Biden and Trump administration\u2019s focus on bringing forward-leaning technologies to the Pentagon, Carter established the Defense Innovation Board. He credited Baker with bringing in the board\u2019s first chairman, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, as well as other tech \u201csuperstars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon\u2019s policy shop is expected to play a key role as the Biden administration grapples with a deteriorating Afghanistan and shifting force posture in the Middle East. Baker, who was involved in drafting the Biden administration\u2019s first national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/08\/10\/mara-karlin-confirmed-to-lead-pentagon-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\">defense policy<\/a> document, would also have a lead role implementing it, if confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe was very involved in everything we did in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria \u2015 and the force structure and operational decisions &#8230; so she knows very well all the issues involved in positioning forces in that theater, and that\u2019s an important priority,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker rose from House staffer to budget analyst in the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s homeland and national security divisions during the Obama administration. She was credited with later shaping Warren\u2019s national security agenda, which took aim at rising defense budgets and the revolving door between the Pentagon and the defense industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Baker was tapped for the National Security Council in January, Warren endorsed Baker as an \u201cexcellent choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSasha Baker has been by my side in Iraq, Afghanistan, China, and the DMZ. She understands that our national security can\u2019t solely be run by the Pentagon for the wealthy and well-connected,\u201d Warren said, using an abbreviation for the Korean Peninsula\u2019s Demilitarized Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nomination comes after Biden\u2019s pick for defense policy chief saw some of the toughest scrutiny of any of his national security nominees so far. In April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/04\/27\/bidens-pentagon-policy-chief-colin-kahl-poised-for-confirmation-with-gop-senators-absent\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Senate confirmed Colin Kahl<\/a> to be the undersecretary of defense for policy despite unified opposition from Senate Republicans who took issue with his history of tweets attacking Republican lawmakers and support for the controversial Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker is the third senior director in this administration\u2019s National Security Council to be nominated for a major position. 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