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10 May 2017, 1:49 pm
The Hill reports that Defense Secretary James Mattis has downplayed concerns over Turkey’s reaction, saying that he is “not concerned at all about the NATO alliance and the relations between our countries. [read post]
2 May 2017, 7:11 am
Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Advisor H.R. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:21 pm
Politico reports that the White House is pushing back against Defense Secretary James Mattis’s pick to fill the role of undersecretary of defense for policy, Anne Patterson. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 1:30 pm
The move, which has been revealed as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets with the Defense Secretary James Mattis, only adds to Tillerson’s already existing public relations headache over his aversion to the press, which the Times chronicles here. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 12:01 pm
Politico adds that Kushner’s trip is part of a wider effort by the Pentagon to reach out to the White House by Defense Secretary James Mattis and Dunford, while the Post notes that Kushner has a “singular and almost untouchable role” in the White House, displacing at times both the Secretary of State and the national security adviser. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 10:51 am
The demand, which was detailed in a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary Tillerson, follows a decision by the State Department to resume the sale of precision-guided weapons to Saudi Arabia, after the Obama administration suspended the sale of about $390 million worth of precision munitions guidance systems at the end of last year amid recurring allegations of Saudi-led bombings of schools, markets, clinics and factories in Yemen. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 10:16 am
” Earlier this month Defense Secretary James Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that CFIUS “needs to be updated” to recognize China’s interest in American technology. [read post]
18 May 2017, 12:00 pm
He also broke tradition by appointing a recently-retired general as Secretary of Defense, then gave Secretary Jim Mattis carte blanche to determine Department of Defense doctrine and policy on the use of torture, despite Trump’s fundamental disagreement with Mattis on the issue. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 6:00 am
Defense Secretary James Mattis visited Macedonia to signal U.S. support for the referendum. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
Secretary of Defense James Mattis noted in a press briefing a few days after Tillerson’s speech that the United States was actually drawing down its troop presence in Syria. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 3:56 pm
In 2018, the president directed the military to implement a memorandum from Secretary of Defense James Mattis, with recommendations from a panel of senior military officials, that would effectively ban transgender individuals from serving in the military. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 8:10 am
On Feb. 5, Defense Secretary James Mattis unceremoniously removed well-respected legal scholar Harvey Rishikof from his role as the military commissions’ convening authority, less than a year after putting him in charge. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 8:09 am
As Chesney has previously discussed, the Senate version of the NDAA originally set out a fairly detailed U.S. cyber policy, which drew objections from Secretary of Defense James Mattis. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 11:00 am
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22 Feb 2011, 9:13 am
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17 Jun 2019, 1:04 pm
The 2018 memorandum adopted then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s recommendations that: Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service, except under the following limited circumstances (1) if they have been stable for 36 consecutive months in their biological sex prior to accession; (2) Service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria after entering into service may be retained if they do not require a… [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 5:00 am
In March, a top U.S. diplomat, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, visited Serbia and called for Kosovo to lift its tariffs against Serbia. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 10:34 am
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said that the Pentagon was looking at the issue, pointing to Defense Secretary Mattis’s recent memo asking for an initial plan to better support information management and cyber operations. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm
.), the nominee for Attorney General; former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the nominee for Secretary of State; and retired Marine General James Mattis, the nominee for Secretary of Defense, whose confirmation would require waiving a law that forces Defense Secretaries to have been retired from military service for at least seven years. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 1:03 pm
Reuters reports that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his country viewed Trump’s dim view of NATO with “anxiety” and noted that the President-elect’s statements on the alliance contradicted those of his nominee for Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. [read post]
