Ignatius: James Mattis Pick Is ‘Good News’; ‘It’s Good News for NATO’

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IGNATIUS: "He believes in partnerships and alliances. This is good news. It’s good news for NATO . General Mattis worked closely with NATO on weaponization transformation and other programs. He’s very well known to the military and Pentagon establishment. The current chairman of the joint chiefs served under him in Iraq. The current cno of Navy served with him. The head of CENTCOM served with him. This is very much a known figure. The one question that people have is whether this distinguished general, fighting general, he is that, has the management skills to take on what arguably is the toughest management job in America which is running the Pentagon. It’s tough for anybody to do that but in some ways especially tough for former uniformed general officer."