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20 Apr 2018, 10:13 am
Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara began carrying out sorties in Vietnam. [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 4:00 am
Publicly, Defense Secretary James Mattis contended, “as our commander in chief, the president has the authority under Article II of the Constitution to use military force overseas to defend important U.S. national interests,” though privately Mattis was apparently more skeptical about the president’s authority to act against the Syrian government without prior congressional approval. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 1:36 pm
Defense Secretary James Mattis accused the Syrian government of intentionally delaying the inspections, citing the regime’s history of trying to erase evidence of chemical weapons attacks. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 6:59 am
Following up his July 2017 Twitter announcement that the United States would no longer “accept or allow” transgender people “to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military,” President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum in August directing the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to return to an earlier policy excluding transgender service members. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 7:00 am
Secretary of Defense James Mattis described it as a “one-off”—not an opening salvo in an escalation of the U.S. role in Syria. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 12:06 pm
” After all, as both Defense Secretary James Mattis and Pentagon spokesperson Dana White reiterated countless times, no civilized nation can or should tolerate the use of chemical weapons. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 11:50 am
Defense Secretary James Mattis and Gen. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 11:28 am
And they more recently sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter objecting to her department’s rulemaking process to reconsider rules regarding student loan borrower defenses and financial responsibility that were to go into effect in 2017. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 9:44 am
On April 12, 2018, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. [read post]
14 Apr 2018, 1:46 pm
His senior national security advisers—Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan, CIA Director (and Secretary of State-designate) Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor John Bolton, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Counsel to the President Don McGahn (the last five of whom are lawyers)—should all urge the president to act consistent with, and specifically refer to, the legal rules governing use of force. [read post]
14 Apr 2018, 10:54 am
Although it has offered no official legal argument for the strikes, Secretary of Defense James Mattis made crystal clear that he believed Article II alone was the basis: As our commander in chief, the president has the authority under Article II of the Constitution to use military force overseas to defend important U.S. national interests. [read post]
13 Apr 2018, 11:30 am
The rash deadline, along with taunting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad alarmed some military officials, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, who advocated for a more deliberate approach to the escalating conflict. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:01 pm
With the Trump Administration U.S. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 4:00 am
A recent Quinnipiac survey suggests most Americans recognize the vulnerability of U.S. election infrastructure and think the government should be striking a more defensive posture in advance of the midterm elections. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 11:07 pm
Bennett had earlier represented Caspar Weinberger, President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 1:32 pm
Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters on Wednesday that the administration is still assessing intelligence on the Syrian regime’s attack, Reuters reports. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 2:01 pm
Speaking to reporters, Defense Secretary James Mattis said the administration would not rule out any retaliatory options at the moment, including a strike against the Assad government. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 6:00 am
While the first and second offset strategies were developed to counter Soviet conventional superiority (President Eisenhower’s New Look Strategy in the early 1950s) and Soviet nuclear superiority (Defense Secretary Harold Brown and Deputy Defense Secretary William Perry’s Offset Strategy in the 1970s), this third offset strategy is more focused on maintaining the U.S. and its military allies’ current competitive advantage. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 10:37 am
After federal courts blocked the ban as unconstitutional, and following a memo and report by the Defense Secretary in consultation with the Homeland Security Secretary (as to the U.S. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 8:30 am
Chopra was Special Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. [read post]
