Five former defense secretaries have called on Congress to immediately hold hearings on President Trump’s “reckless” firing of senior military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...

On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the start of 2019, joined other former secretaries of ...

Retired Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served at Trump’s side for over a year, finds it “impossible to understand” why Trump is ...

The inclusion of Mattis, in particular, caught the attention of some current and former Pentagon officials on Thursday night. Noting that he is both a retired general and former defense secretary ...