Americans' eroding trust in all forms of government has made it impossible to solve the most serious problems facing the United States today, former Defense Secretary James Mattis wrote in a recent article for The Atlantic

The award has previously been bestowed on George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Harry S Truman

"If ISIS has access to the resources – and therefore the means to procure arms or buy fighters or whatever else they do – that makes it more difficult do defeat ISIS," Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. "So this is all nested underneath the defeat ISIS campaign."

There's a new book detailing the inside story of what it was like during James Mattis' tenure as defense secretary, and it's safe to say that he'd prefer you not read it

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis decided to take on President Donald Trump's reported assertion that he is "overrated" at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City on Thursday