President Obama signed the measure ... index of American national power is the strength of its armed forces. Jim Mattis has the position, the credibility, and the expertise to engineer a ...

Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 ... legal constraints on the president’s power,” said the letter signed by Mattis and four other defense secretaries. Mattis was the only ...

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 ...

Gen. James Mattis is held in the highest regard by other warfighters Susan Katz Keating is a stringer at PEOPLE. She has written about major crime, along with military topics, for more than two ...