Pentagon officials are bracing themselves for increased friction between the Defense Department and the White House with John Bolton’s pending arrival as MORE’s national security adviser.
Bolton, who Trump selected to replace H.R. McMaster earlier this month, enters a Cabinet already rocked by the February ousting of Secretary of State MORE.
Mattis, who met Bolton for the first time this week, publicly stressed that he had “no reservations, no concerns at all,” in working with the hawkish former George W.