Is This The Next U.S. General To Manage America's 'Shadow Wars'?

Army Maj. Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller is shown leading soldiers in physical training at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2015. (Photo by Markeith Horace/ U.S. Army)

Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post: This Army general is likely to lead the shadowy Joint Special Operations Command

Major General Austin “Scott” Miller is likely to be the next head of the U.S. military’s secretive Joint Special Operations Command, according to sources close to the matter.

Miller would replace Fort Bragg-based Army Lt. Gen. Raymond Thomas III, who is slotted to lead Special Operations Command out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla in the coming months.

A decorated Special Operations soldier, Miller is currently the commanding general of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence and of Fort Benning, Ga. His most recent billets have pushed him into the public light as the Army’s Ranger School, which falls under his watch, recently graduated the first three women in the storied course’s history.

With Miller’s ascension to JSOC, his public persona would likely fade—and quickly.

WNU Editor: It looks like big changes are about to happen in military personnel.