Michael Walsh has been appointed by the incoming President of the USA, Donald Trump to the post of National Security Advisor.

“Michael has been a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda and will be a formidable champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength!Trump said in a statement.

The “hawk” of the Congress

He is a former member of the Green Beret corps, the United States Army Special Forces, and one of the congressional “hawks” on national security issues.

Mr. Walsh, who received four Bronze Stars after multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and Africa, he’s the type of conservative who once supported GOP foreign policy orthodoxy. At the Pentagon, he worked as a defense adviser to Defense Secretaries Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert M. Gates. He advised then-Vice President Dick Cheney on counterterrorism.

However, during his time in Congress, Walsh espoused a national security doctrine that has become increasingly inimical to Trump’s worldview. A member of the Armed Services, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees, he has rebuked NATO allies for failing to meet their military spending commitments and has taken a hard line on China and Iran.

He has deep ties to the Trump administration.

Even during his first term in Congress, Mr. Walsh caught the eye of the White House with his national security credentials. In 2020, in the days after Trump authorized the drone strike that killed Iran’s Major General Qassim Suleimani, Mr. Walsh was among a small group of Republicans invited to the White House and briefed on the strike. He appears frequently on Fox News as a national security expert.

His wife, Julia Nesheiwat, was homeland security adviser in the first Trump administration.

OR worldview of the hawk which it has, stretches from Mexico to Iran and Afghanistan.

Since being elected to Congress in 2019 to represent a district in East Florida, Mr. Walsh has taken a bullish view on Iran and China, but also on Mexico and Afghanistan.

He was an outspoken critic of the abrupt withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan during the Biden presidency.

“What nobody can ever do for me, including this government right now, is articulate a counter-terrorism plan that is realistic without us there“, said Mr. Walsh in an interview in the days after the withdrawal.

Walsh had also opposed withdrawing large numbers of troops from Afghanistan during the Trump administration without strong conditions and introduced legislation to prevent a significant withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan unless the director of national intelligence could certify that the Taliban they will not be associated with Al Qaeda.

In 2023, Mr. Walsh spearheaded legislation that would have authorized the president to use military force against Mexican drug cartels based on the trafficking, production and distribution of fentanyl. The bill mirrors the war powers Congress gave former President George W. Bush before the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.