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Robert Tait in Washington DC

Trump’s former ‘drone guy’ Dan Driscoll is the unlikely point man for the Ukraine peace deal

a man in a suit sits at a table
Daniel Driscoll attends a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Kyiv on 20 November 2025. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters

Little in Dan Driscoll’s résumé – past or present – suggests he has the qualifications to understand the often-tortured and bloody history of relations between Russia and Ukraine.

A former investment banker with a degree in business administration, the current US army secretary’s main calling card for a prominent role in the Trump administration may be a friendship with JD Vance dating from when they were at Yale Law School together.

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