When announcing Mattis as his pick for defense secretary last month, Trump praised the retired four-star general as the “closest thing to General Patton that we have.” As he fields questions ...

Jim Mattis is a worthy successor to the only previous general officer to serve as Secretary of Defense, General George C. Marshall. Mattis shares Marshall’s deep knowledge of history ...

Here’s the long and the short of it, though: Hegseth is safe until he isn’t. Trump’s Cabinet picks are not famed for their ...

Defense Secretary James Mattis was legendary long before he agreed to join President Donald Trump's Cabinet. The retired four-star general spent 44 years in the US Marine Corps, working his way up ...

Controversy has plagued Hegseth since Trump first nominated him to serve as the Secretary of Defense — from sexual assault ...

Credit: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has responded to Trump's comments that he's "the world's most overrated general" in a pointed, joke-filled speech that ...

Which is why the next secretary of defense, retired Marine Corps General James Mattis, has the most difficult management challenge in American government. He comes from a service whose core ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court’s order that blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...