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US will ALWAYS lead Nato, Britain insists amid rumoured ‘vacancy’ in top commander role after Trump’s blasts on alliance

Published on March 27, 2025 at 04:00 PM

US will ALWAYS lead Nato, Britain insists amid rumoured ‘vacancy’ in top commander role after Trump’s blasts on alliance
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AMERICA will always lead Nato, Britain’s defence secretary has claimed.

John Healey insisted there was “no vacancy”; at the top of the alliance.

John Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, leaving 10 Downing Street.
Britain’s defence secretary John Healey has insisted there was ‘no vacancy' at the top of Nato

He brushed off concerns about Donald Trump’s pivots, adding: “America is not stepping away”;.

Healey was responding to claims that America would stop providing a general to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), the alliance's top military commander.

The post has been held by an American since General Dwight Eisenhower became the first SACEUR in 1951.

But the US network NBC reported that the US was considering giving it up as part of a major “restucturing”.

Britain’s chief of defence staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin had been tipped as a possible successor.

Healey was asked if he would back his Admiral, while Radakin was sitting next to him at Wellington Barracks in central London.

Healey said: “It’s always been the American SACEUR. That is that is what I want to continue to see.”;

He said the White House was right to challenge Europe and the UK “to step up and do more”;.

But he insisted America’s Defence Secretary had “made it very clear”; that they were committed to the alliance.

Healey said: The Americans have been the cornerstone of Nato, and in my discussions with Secretary Hegseth he's made very clear that at one of the same time they are challenging rightly European nations like the UK to step up and do more, but America is not stepping away.”;

“For me, there is no vacancy. There's no question that it's not and should not be, an American SACEUR.”;

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