Thursday, September 6, 2018

On The Road With U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and President Donald Trump at the Pentagon following a meeting of the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2017. (DOD/U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)

Jeff Schogol, Task & Purpose: Mattis In Winter

Task & Purpose Pentagon correspondent Jeff Schogol is currently on the road with Secretary of Defense James Mattis as he travels to India. Subscribe to the Pentagon Run-Down for the latest dispatches and send (semi-appropriates) questions to schogol@taskandpurpose.com.

NEW DELHI, INDIA – Despite traveling more than 7,400 miles from the Beltway to New Delhi, Defense Secretary James Mattis cannot escape the inferno of insider politics that is Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concluded their first “2+2” meeting with their Indian counterparts, during which both countries signed an agreement that will allow the Indian military to share sophisticated U.S. military communication technologies, established a hotline between the United States and India, and agreed to hold a first-of-its-kind military exercise in 2019 off India’s east coast that will include U.S. and Indian air, land, and sea components.

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WNU Editor: There is some speculation that President Trump wants to remove him .... Will President Donald Trump Replace Secretary Of Defense James Mattis? (Task & Purpose). But I do not see that happening. President Trump has not shown any animosity towards his US Defense Secretary, and the same can be said about US Secretary of Defense Mattis towards President Trump.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Big Lie didn’t die with the end of the Soviet Union. American media and Democratic Party have renewed it, expanded it and are more outrageous in using it.