Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has received the Pentagon’s highest honor for private citizens and foreign nationals.
Kissinger, 92, received the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award on Monday at the Pentagon for “orchestrating countless foreign policy victories” during his tenure as the national security adviser to President Richard Nixon, a DOD statement said.
During the ceremony, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that while Kissinger’s “contributions are far from complete, we are now beginning to appreciate what his service has provided our country, how it has changed the way we think about strategy and how he has helped provide greater security for our citizens and people around the world.”
Critics say that although Kissinger deserves credit for some of the US’s most significant victories during the Cold War, he had a hand in far…