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U.S. Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis watched members of the Indonesian military showing off a variety of rare skills during his three-day visit to the nation in eastern Asia this week.

At a remote military base in Jordan earlier this month, U.S. Marines were abuzz with excitement — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was in town.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle, Gold Star father Billy Vaughn praised the loosened rules of engagement President Donald Trump authorized Defense Secretary James Mattis to operate with. Vaughn, whose Navy SEAL son, Aaron, was killed in 2011 when

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis began a pre-holiday tour of military bases at the American Navy facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, offering holiday cheer to the troops tasked with operating the jihadi prison on the island and urging them to be ready for war.

Secretary of State Jim Mattis flatly denied the New York Times story that said the White House is paving the exit for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

“Little rocket man … he is a sick puppy,” Trump said.

Contents: Pakistan government totally capitulates to hardline Islamist TLYRAP Barelvi sect mob; Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah of Pakistan (TLYR or TLYRAP) has roots in Barelvi sect and murder of Salman Taseer; North Korea ballistic missiles threaten ‘everywhere in the world’

Defense Secretary James Mattis is traveling in East Asia to meet with his counterparts to discuss shared security challenges such as North Korea, terrorism in the region, and maritime disputes, and to reassure them of U.S. commitment.

“When something like this happens, obviously the report does come to us, and as we say in the military — the first report is always wrong,” McMaster said.

NEW YORK — Secretary of Defense James Mattis is confirmed to speak at the annual conference of a George Soros-financed think tank that is also funded by the controversial Ploughshares Fund, identified by the Obama White House as central to helping sell the Iran nuclear deal to the public and news media.

“I think it’s fake news, but if he did that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests,” Trump said in an interview with Forbes. “And I can tell you who is going to win.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis on Monday had harsh words for Iran at the Association of the United States Army conference, ahead of a key Trump administration announcement on the Iran nuclear deal.

The deadline to renew or reject the Iran nuclear deal brokered by President Barack Obama is approaching, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued Monday it is also time for President Donald’s Trump’s national security team to back his plan to pull out of the deal or get out of the White House.

President Donald Trump met with several military leaders at the White House on Thursday, and later invited them and their spouses for dinner.

A rocket attack on an international airport in Kabul barely missed Defense Secretary James Mattis, who landed there on a surprise visit Wednesday.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively in an interview in his U.S. Senate office on Capitol Hill this week that he is troubled by the bad advice President Donald Trump is getting from the military generals who surround him on matters of war.

Contents: Will we have to accept a world in which North Korea is a nuclear power?; World leaders express outrage and call nuclear test ‘unacceptable’; Will the United States take some military action against North Korea?

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday slammed news reports suggesting he was breaking with the president on North Korea a day earlier.

According to Politico contributing editor Rich Lowry, President Trump “is experiencing a bout of insubordination from his top officials the likes of which we haven’t witnessed in the modern era.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday that the U.S. is not out of diplomatic options to denuclearize North Korea.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the U.S. is actively considering sending lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, which is fighting Russian separatists inside its eastern border with Russia.

Although President Trump’s speech on Monday night did not include any specific troop numbers for Afghanistan, Fox News claims an unnamed senior official told them 4,000 more troops have been approved for the mission. Other sources have said the exact number will be closer to 3,800.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Jordan on Sunday, his first stop on a trip that will also include travel to Turkey and Ukraine.

SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA — In the middle of a vast complex on NASA’s Moffett Airfield, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a nondescript two-story building where the Pentagon is working with tech companies on its latest top secret project.

Defense Secretary James Mattis on Thursday said the Trump administration’s diplomatic strategy on North Korea is “gaining traction.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis issued a stern warning to North Korea Wednesday after news reports indicated the regime may now have the capability to miniaturize a warhead atop of a missile that could target the U.S. or its allies.

President Donald Trump voiced his frustration with the war on Afghanistan, the longest war in America’s history.

President Donald Trump is reportedly at odds with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, who is also at odds with other presidential advisers and cabinet members, according to a congressional aide and other unnamed sources.

The Pentagon will continue to execute its current policy on transgender troops until it receives direction from the White House, a defense official told Breitbart News on Thursday.

White House and Pentagon officials are reviewing the military’s pro-transgender policies set in place by deputies working for former President Barack Obama, according to a Facebook post by Rep. Justin Amash, who voted July 13 against changing the Obama transgender policies.

PARIS, France – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says he sees “a new round of resistance” on the horizon for Iran during Donald Trump’s presidency.

The Trump administration is turning up the pressure on China to do more to convince its ally North Korea to denuclearize, a key part of the president’s diplomatic strategy.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis, en route to a NATO meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, told reporters that Syria appears to have backed away from conducting a chemical weapons attack after President Donald Trump’s warning.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Tuesday the U.S. would stay focused on going after the Islamic State (ISIS) and avoid getting drawn into a war with Syria, despite the White House warning the regime not to conduct another chemical weapons attack on its own people.

Turkey’s National Defense Ministry claims that Secretary of Defense James Mattis has promised Ankara that American officials are only lending, not giving, weapons to Syrian Kurdish militias fighting the Islamic State and plan to retrieve those weapons following the liberation of Raqqa.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday he believed President Trump’s comment that American student Otto Warmbier, who died this week after being released from 18 months in detention in North Korea, should have been brought home much sooner, represented the American people’s view.