United States Secretary of Defense

The Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense and is the lead civilian security adviser to the President of the United States.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Dawson was the Defense Minister [sic] of the United States, advising the President to launch a nuclear strike on the newly-awakened battling Cybertronians, only for both of them to be usurped by General Robert Hallo. Prime Directive #6

Live-action film series

Dark of the Moon film

In 1961, Secretary Robert McNamara met with President John F. Kennedy's to inform the latter of a UFO crashing on the Moon. Dark of the Moon

Robert McNamara’s involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novel "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."

2007 Transformers film

In 2007, John Keller was Secretary of Defense, briefing U.S. intelligence analysts on the mysterious surprise attack on SOCCENT Forward Operations Base. Shortly thereafter, Sector Seven official Tom Banachek arrived to explain the alien nature of the attackers to Keller. Keller traveled with Banacheck to Sector Seven's Hoover Dam facility, bearing witness to the powerful AllSpark being sought by the evil Decepticons. While Captain Lennox's team tried to secret the AllSpark to safety, Keller remained at the facility to summon reinforcements. Keller and his new associates were also able to take down a Decepticon assassin along the way. In the wake of the crisis, Keller informed the U.S. military of Sector Seven's shutdown and the dead Decepticons being disposed of in the Laurentian Abyss. Transformers

General John Keller's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "Transformers," and "Transformers: The Junior Novel"; the "Transformers: Movie Adaptation" and "Movie Trilogy" comics; and the storybook "Transformers: The Movie Storybook."

Shattered Glass

Hauser was the Secretary of Defense to President Colton. Eye in the Sky

Notes

• Dreamwave continuity mistakenly uses the term "Defense Minister" because Dreamwave, the publisher of the storyline, was based in Canada, and the Great White North's equivalent of the Secretary of Defense is indeed a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Minister of National Defence (Canada)|{{#if:Minister of National Defence|Minister of National Defence|Minister of National Defence (Canada)}}]].

External links

• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}United States Secretary of Defense|{{#if:||United States Secretary of Defense}}]] at Wikipedia