Editing 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]]. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|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 (moon)|Moon]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}
{{note|Robert McNamara’s involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novel “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (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 [[William Lennox|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 [[Frenzy (Movie)|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]]. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|General John Keller's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers (novel)|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]]. {{storylink|Eye in the Sky}}

==Notes==
*Dreamwave continuity mistakenly uses the term "Defense Minister" because [[Dreamwave Productions|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 {{w|Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence}}.

==External links==
*{{w|United States Secretary of Defense}} at Wikipedia

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