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'''Q:''' So it sounds like you're saying this depends on diplomacy with the Taliban, that's it. That's our only option is getting them to agree to do this.<ref>https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2738086/secretary-of-defense-austin-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-mille/</ref>}}
'''Q:''' So it sounds like you're saying this depends on diplomacy with the Taliban, that's it. That's our only option is getting them to agree to do this.<ref>https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2738086/secretary-of-defense-austin-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-mille/</ref>}}
Democrat Sen. [[Bob Menendez]], chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, threatened to [[subpoena]] Austin to testify about his incompetence and bungleing of the Afghan debacle when Austin refused to appear for a hearing.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/14/senator-bob-menendez-subpoena-secretary-defense-lloyd-austin-foreign-relations-committee-afghanistan/</ref>
Democrat Sen. [[Bob Menendez]], chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, threatened to [[subpoena]] Austin to testify about his incompetence and bungleing of the Afghan debacle when Austin refused to appear for a hearing.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/14/senator-bob-menendez-subpoena-secretary-defense-lloyd-austin-foreign-relations-committee-afghanistan/</ref>
==Defense industry boards==
Austin also served on the Board of Nucor, a supplier of steel to companies that benefit from US military spending, including Oshkosh Defense, which is producing 50,000 [[Humvee]] replacements, and shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, whose work includes submarines and aircraft carriers.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/12/10/bidens-pentagon-nominee-lloyd-austin-criticized-for-steel-industry-work/</ref> Austin earned $275,000 in total compensation from Nucor the previous year.<ref>https://www.salary.com/research/executive-compensation/lloyd-j-austin-iii-board-member-of-nucor-corp</ref>
==Politicization of the military==
==Politicization of the military==