On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the start of 2019, joined other former secretaries of defense to call on Congress to hold immediate hearings to assess the national ...

James Mattis, a Pullman native and former Secretary of Defense, has joined four other ex-Defense Secretaries in criticizing President Trump's recent firings of key military leaders.

Richland’s retired four-star general and former secretary of defense has broken his recent silence on President Trump. On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the ...

James Slife, the Air Force’s vice chief ... Noting that he is both a retired general and former defense secretary, Mattis has on occasion declined to criticize the current president, citing ...

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insisted on Wednesday that he is not part of the so-called “Resistance” inside the Trump administration that is apparently working in secret to slow-roll or ...

James Slife, the Air Force’s vice chief of staff ... Noting that he is both a retired general and former defense secretary, Mattis has on occasion declined to criticize the current president, citing ...

Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will accept a public service award at a ceremony in Spokane scheduled for April. The Thomas S. Foley ...