Denmark names new chief of staff, military intelligence boss

NATO-member Denmark on Tuesday named Fleet Rear Adm. Tim Sloth Joergensen as its new military chief of staff.

Sloth Joergensen will replace retiring army Gen. Hans Jesper Helsoe as the top military commander of Denmark's armed forces on Aug. 1.

Denmark, which withdrew combat troops from Iraq last year, has some 600 troops in Afghanistan, most of them based …