The "just Jim" preferences of new Defense Secretary James Norman Mattis appear to be taking hold in the vast public affairs machinery of the Pentagon. The retired Marine general let it be known ...

Ben Brimelow contributed to an earlier version of this story. James Norman Mattis was born September 8, 1950, in Pullman, Washington. Mattis enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserves ...

“He was competent; he was aware of danger and stoically he dealt with it,” Mattis said. So, too, the 26th secretary of defense, James Norman Mattis. Kori Schake is a contributing writer at The ...

James Norman Mattis is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 26th US secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019. During his 44 years in the Marine Corps, he ...

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned last year citing irreconcilable policy differences with President Donald Trump, on Wednesday rejected Trump’s preference for American ...

James "Mad Dog" Mattis to be his secretary of defense. "We are going to appoint 'Mad Dog' Mattis as our Secretary of Defense," Trump said at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. "But we're not announcing ...

The wonder, of course, is that Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who announced his resignation on Thursday, ever got the job at all. From the beginning, Mattis and his boss, President Trump ...

Defense Secretary James Mattis submitted a letter of resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday, writing that the president deserves “the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views ...

Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis addressed his “Mad Dog” nickname at his Senate confirmation hearing for defense secretary on Thursday. “That nickname was given to me by the press ...

WASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary James Mattis unloaded on President Trump in an opinion piece, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and of trying to divide the American people ...