{"id":55507,"date":"2018-03-27T23:18:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/27\/mattis-predicts-partnership-with-bolton-despite-differences\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:33:31","slug":"mattis-predicts-partnership-with-bolton-despite-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/27\/mattis-predicts-partnership-with-bolton-despite-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattis predicts partnership with Bolton despite differences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis acknowledged on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump\u2019s incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, have different world views but predicted they will develop a working partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI look forward to working with him \u2014 no reservations, no concerns at all,\u201d Mattis told reporters at an impromptu news conference. \u201cLast time I checked, he\u2019s an American. I\u2019m not in the least bit concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis said he has never met Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/23\/bolton-may-herald-rightward-shift-in-trumps-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">conservative firebrand<\/a>. He said he expects Bolton to pay a visit to the Pentagon soon, perhaps this week, to begin developing a relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll tell you right up front: it\u2019s going to be a partnership,\u201d he said. When a reporter mentioned that people see his world view as significantly different than that of Bolton, Mattis replied, \u201cThat\u2019s the normal thing you want, unless you want group-think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton, who will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/22\/mcmaster-out-as-national-security-adviser-trump-announces-john-bolton-as-replacement\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">replace Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster <\/a>on April 9, has publicly advocated for overthrowing the North Korean government, possibly by force. Mattis, a retired Marine general who knows intimately the costs of war, favors diplomacy to rid the North of its nuclear weapons and has said war on the Korean Peninsula would be \u201ccatastrophic.\u201d On Iran, too, Mattis would seem at odds with Bolton, who has argued for abandoning the Obama-era nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/27\/mattis-poisoning-in-britain-is-attempted-murder-by-russia\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-936511634.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Mattis: Poisoning in Britain is &#8216;attempted murder&#8217; by Russia<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The poisoning in Britain of a former Russian spy and his daughter amounts to \u201cattempted murder\u201d by the Russian government and furthers a pattern of Russian efforts to divide the U.S.-led Western alliance, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These and other matters of war and peace will test Mattis\u2019 influence with Trump as his national security team is overhauled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis was sometimes at odds with McMaster, but the arrival of the hawkish Bolton, combined with the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the uncertain status of John Kelly as White House chief of staff, appears to leave Mattis more isolated than at any time since he took over the Pentagon 15 months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North Korea issue is front-and-center: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/10\/trump-believes-north-korea-will-keep-word-on-missile-tests\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean President Kim Jong Un<\/a> by May to discuss the North\u2019s nuclear disarmament. The unprecedented summit could be a turning point in a decades-old U.S.-North Korean standoff that Trump himself has said could end in \u201cfire and fury\u201d \u2014 an American nuclear attack \u2014 to stop the North from gaining the ability to strike the U.S. with a nuclear missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is buckle-up time,\u201d retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said last week on MSNBC. \u201cFor the military I have three words: Sharpen your swords. He (Bolton) is someone who is going to reach for the military instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18081811668120.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18081811668120.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18081811668120.jpg.jpg?resize=300,210 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18081811668120.jpg.jpg?resize=768,537 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this Feb. 24, 2017, file photo, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md. President Donald is replacing National security adviser H.R. McMaster with Bolton. (Alex Brandon\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The changes in the White House and at the State Department, while significant for Mattis, are hardly heart-stopping. People close to him sense no change in his commitment to the job; some suggest that Trump\u2019s decision to move former Republican congressman and current CIA director Mike Pompeo to State, replacing Tillerson, could benefit Mattis in the sense that he\u2019ll have a partner at State who is better aligned with Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publicly, Mattis has said little about the shakeup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/13\/us-defense-secretary-mattis-arrives-in-afghan-capital\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">He was in Afghanistan when Tillerson got the ax<\/a>. When reporters asked his reaction a couple of days later, Mattis said he preferred not to comment on the details, although he went on to suggest that its importance was being exaggerated. He said that in all of his discussions abroad with foreign government officials and American troops, the matter was not brought up once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI understand why you\u2019re asking, but I\u2019m just pointing out that in most parts of the world this is a Washington, D.C., story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2017\/07\/19\/high-school-journalist-calls-mattis-chaos-actual-calls-back\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/35780793775-b85537944c-k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">High school journalist calls Mattis, Chaos Actual calls back<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">It pays to be from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis&#039; home state, at least that seems to be at least one of the lessons for a student from Washington&#039;s Mercer Island High School.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another Washington story is Mattis and his ability to forge a workable relationship with Trump despite differences on some issues like the Iran nuclear deal, which Mattis says is flawed but worth honoring as long as the Iranians do. Mattis also has differed with the president over Trump\u2019s wish to bar all transgender people from serving in the military, and he helped sway Trump from his inclination last year to end U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mattis formula seems to be simple. Out of the spotlight, out of trouble. The less he says publicly, the less he risks losing influence with Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of his success &#8230; is absolutely the fact that you don\u2019t see him in the limelight terribly much,\u201d says Loren Dejonge Schulman, a defense analyst at the Center for a New American Security who served in key national security positions in the White House and Pentagon under President Barack Obama. \u201cThat may be keeping him out of trouble with the White House but I think it\u2019s setting an incredibly bad precedent in terms of Pentagon transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Mattis, who spent more than 40 years in uniform and is the first career military officer to lead the Pentagon since George C. Marshall in the early 1950s, isn\u2019t the most experienced politician to run the military\u2019s vast bureaucracy, he has shown a knack for staying out of trouble with his thin-skinned boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis has even broken Trump of his habit of calling the retired general \u201cMad Dog,\u201d which Mattis insists was a media invention to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump frequently has lunch and dinners with the defense secretary and speaks glowingly of him to outside advisers. White House officials have said that Trump sometimes repeats military historical anecdotes he heard from Mattis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even Mattis\u2019 few known stumbles have not dogged him. In August, for example, Mattis told sailors at a submarine base in his home state of Washington that the Navy would give them the worst and the best days of their lives, and then added, \u201cThat means you\u2019re not some (expletive) sitting on the sidelines,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know what I mean, kind of sitting there saying, \u2018Well, I should have done something with my life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His language was quickly forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The episode pointed to a man who has shaped the job and not let it shape him. So much so that perhaps the most poignant criticism of his tenure has been the secrecy with which the military has handled everything from troop deployment numbers to the details of its military strategies \u2014 things that often were made public under previous secretaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis acknowledged on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump\u2019s incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, have different world views but predicted they will develop a working 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