Gen john allen biography

US Marine Corps general (born 1953)

This article is about the U.S. Marine Corps general. For the United States Air Force general, see John R.

Allen Jr. For other persons, see John Allen.

John Rutherford Allen (born 15 December 1953) is a retired United States Marine Corpsfour-stargeneral, and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S.

Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A). On 13 September 2014, president Barack Obama appointed Allen as special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).^[1] He was succeeded in that role by Brett McGurk on 23 October 2015.^[2] He is the co-author of Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence with Darrell M.

West (Brookings Institution Press, 2020) and Future War and the Defence of Europe alongside Lieutenant General (Ret.) Ben Hodges and Professor Julian Lindley French (Oxford University Press, 2021). A