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Post by Daniel on Dec 4, 2016 8:22:00 GMT -5
Trump Chooses “Mad Dog” Mattis for Pentagon Chief
Matthew Vadum
December 2, 2016
Obama foe and retired Marine Corps Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis will be the nation’s new Secretary of Defense if President-elect Donald Trump gets his way.
“I will not tell you that one of our great, great generals — don’t let it outside of this room,” an impish Trump told a Cincinnati audience last night. “We are going to appoint 'Mad Dog' Mattis as our secretary of defense … but we are not announcing it until Monday, so don’t tell anyone. He’s great.”
"They say he’s the closest thing to Gen. George Patton that we have and it’s about time."
The president-elect previously praised Mattis. On Nov. 20 he tweeted, “General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, who is being considered for Secretary of Defense, was very impressive yesterday. A true General's General!”
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www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265019/trump-chooses-mad-dog-mattis-pentagon-chief-matthew-vadum
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Post by Daniel on Dec 6, 2016 19:20:04 GMT -5
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet to Meet Foreign Threats
by Cliff Kincaid on December 4, 2016
With the selections of General James N. “Mad Dog” Mattis as Secretary of Defense and Lt. General Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser, President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated that he is prepared to meet foreign threats from Russia, China, and global Islam. Indeed, Flynn argues in his book, The Field of Fight, that the U.S. is facing a “working coalition” of enemies that includes radical Islamists, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The subtitle, How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, suggests that radical Islam is the main enemy. But the content of the book suggests something else—that Russia and China are behind this “enemy alliance” of countries and movements trying to destroy us.
“We face a formidable group of terrorists and hostile countries, and we’ve got to be better prepared to compete or we will need to be ready to destroy them,” says Flynn.
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www.aim.org/aim-column/trump-assembles-a-war-cabinet-to-meet-foreign-threats/
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Post by Daniel on Jan 14, 2017 10:17:43 GMT -5
What You Need to Know About General Mattis
By Wesley Smith
One of the first announced nominations by President-elect Donald Trump following his election in November was that of retired General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense. Along with retired General John Kelly as Director of Homeland Security and retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser, these three career military professionals will have profound influence in shaping our nation’s military strategy and foreign policy.
General Mattis was unequivocally dedicated for 44 years of service to our nation’s men and women in uniform and their families. While initially enlisting in the Marines with a high school education, he later went to college and rose from the rank of private to four-star general; he is known to have a scholarly approach to military strategy and is extremely well read. His personal library reportedly contains thousands of volumes. He readily quotes history and poetry and has a cult-like following from those in the military. His candid and colorful quips are legendary, as is his deeply felt care for Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines. For example, Mattis, as a one-star (brigadier) general who never married, once sent a young Marine home on Christmas Eve so he could be with his family; General Mattis took his place and pulled duty for the night.
Under federal law, former military personnel must be out of the service for seven years before they can serve as Secretary of Defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on January 10, 2017 to discuss granting a waiver for Mattis, something that has only been done once in the last 70 years. At that hearing, in discussing the history of the law and the concept of preserving the separation between military and civilian roles at the Pentagon, Eliot Cohen, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies, spoke in favor of the waiver. Cohen stated that Mattis would be “a stabilizing and moderating force” in the government. Cohen further stated that General Mattis would be key in “preventing wildly stupid, dangerous or illegal things from happening.” While General Mattis is sometimes referred to as “Mad Dog Mattis” (a moniker the general dislikes) Cohen dismissed the nickname as inaccurate and referred to Mattis as careful and prudent.
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aclj.org/national-security/what-you-need-to-know-about-general-mattis
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Post by Daniel on Jan 14, 2017 10:19:45 GMT -5
Secretary of State Nominee, Rex Tillerson Rejects the Obama Administration’s Shaky Globalism
By Harry G. Hutchison
After enduring the Obama’s Administration’s willingness to lead from behind over the past eight years, and after suffering from the Administration’s shameful incompetence in dealing with global threats, it is heartening to observe that the incoming Trump Administration has served notice that it is prepared to take threats to the safety and security of the United States seriously.
Recent history demonstrates that seriousness has been unfamiliar to the current Administration. Instead, the Obama Administration has offered a series of spineless responses to wide-ranging threats.
Recall the Administration’s refusal to counter the alleged Chinese cyber attack on the federal government, which exposed 22 million American’s personnel records to outsiders. Consider President Obama’s failure to take action against Russia until after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confounded his expectation by losing the election. Witness the fact that ISIS (the Islamic State) has expanded its operations and launched more than 143 attacks in more than 28 nations under the Administration’s less than watchful gaze.
Rather than respond forcefully to such risks, President Obama has become captive to outbursts of self-congratulations. Rather than acknowledge that ISIS arose on his watch or Russian power and influence have expanded in Crimea, Syria, and the world, President Obama takes credit for arranging an Iranian nuclear weapons deal that allows the leading state sponsor of terror to receive tens of billions of dollars. President Obama also congratulates himself for orchestrating a rapprochement with Cuba, one of the world’s leading human rights abusers, and leading a coalition of nations that allegedly imperils ISIS.
Taken together, this is simply a self-congratulatory charade masquerading as sound policy analysis.
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aclj.org/national-security/secretary-of-state-nominee-rex-tillerson-rejects-the-obama-administrations-shaky-globalism
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