US 'loses 60% of career ambassadors' since January
Source: BBC News
The United States has lost 60% of its career ambassadors since January, according to the head of the labour union that represents US diplomats.
"Leadership ranks are being depleted at a dizzying speed," Barbara Stephenson, head of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) chief, wrote.
Ms Stephenson, a former ambassador to Panama, says there has been a "decapitation" of top talent.
The BBC has asked the Department of State for a comment.
"The rapid loss of so many senior officers has a serious, immediate, and tangible effect on the capacity of the United States to shape world events," Ms Stephenson writes.
The former ambassador to Panama writes in a forthcoming issue of the Foreign Service Journal that the art of diplomacy must be defended under an administration that she argues appears bent on "dismantling government as we know it".
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Hopefully Trump doesn't even last his first term. There's going to be quite a lot of rebuilding to do once he's gone.
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