On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the start of 2019, joined other former secretaries of ...

Retired Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served at Trump’s side for over a year, finds it “impossible to understand” why Trump is “coddling Putin.” ...

Five former defense secretaries have called on Congress to immediately hold hearings on President Trump’s “reckless” firing of senior military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...

Before he served as President Trump’s first secretary of defense, Gen. James Mattis, as head of U.S. Central Command, testified before Congress in 2013 that “If you don’t fund the State Department ...

Retired Gen. James Mattis, former secretary of defense, greets members of a honor guard unit before a 2021 ceremony at the Washington State University Tri-Cities campus.