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 ...

Mattis resigned as defense secretary in December 2018 in protest ... In 2020 Mattis, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, condemned Trump in a story published by The Atlantic.

Secretary Driscoll told BI the changes coming to the Army are aligned with a focus on lethality, and anything not tied to ...

Richland’s retired four-star general and former secretary of defense has broken his recent silence on President Trump. On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...