Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford has no plans to meet with President-elect Trump in the comings days, contrary to a report.
“There’s nothing on his calendar,” said Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, a spokesman for the chairman. “He only works for one commander in chief at a time.”
CNN, quoting a senior military official, reported Dunford was expected to travel to New York to meet with the president-elect for a discussion on national security and military issues.
“The chairman is though ready to brief the president-elect when and if desired, which his predecessors have done with previous presidents-elect,” Hicks added.
Hicks denied the report and also said there are no new options being drawn up for Trump, although Dunford and his warfighting commanders have been working for months on a new classified National Military Strategy, which will be briefed to the new president once he takes office.
The last revision to the strategy was done last year, under the direction of previous Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.
At the Reagan National Defense Forum in California this month, Dunford said he had met and begun a dialogue with members of Trump’s Pentagon transition team.
But he gave no hint of any changes in the strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
“We’re going to review that, obviously,” Dunford said. “The president-elect has indicated he wants to review that.”
