By: Aaron Mehta
WASHINGTON – With retired Gen. James Mattis viewed as a lock to become the next secretary of defense, the question now turns to who will make up the rest of his team.
To be clear: there is nothing DC likes more than playing the name game, and that triples during a presidential transition. For the Pentagon, the process is even more opaque this year given the number of Republican national security experts who are frozen out for signing “Never Trump” letters. In addition, much of the decision making is being driven by Trump himself, adding a degree of uncertainty in the names being bandied about.
However, there is some value in the wisdom-of-crowd model and so Defense News contacted a number of individuals with ties to the defense world to feel out who might make up the rest of the Trump defense team.
To start with, who are defense observers looking at to be Mattis’ number two?
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