--- description: Donald Loren is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the George W. Bush administration. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Loren ## Donald Loren Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Donald Loren is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the George W. Bush administration. ## Donald Loren Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Oct 26, 2016 ### [Oil Drilling in the Arctic Could Protect America and the Environment](https://time.com/4544445/arctic-oil-drilling-ban/) Banning the practice would underutilize untapped resources and leave the U.S. powerless [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 1, 2016 ### [Obama’s Oil Drilling Ban Threatens National Security](https://time.com/4278458/oil-drilling-national-security/) We can't afford to say ‘no' to U.S. energy [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/donald-loren/","name":"Donald Loren"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/donald-loren/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/donald-loren/"},"name":"Donald Loren","jobTitle":null,"description":"Donald Loren is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the George W. Bush administration.","url":"https://time.com/author/donald-loren/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```