Government / Military

James Mattis

2017-01-20 – 2019-01-01Secretary of Defense

Retired Marine four-star general who served on General Dynamics's board after leaving the military, then became Trump's Secretary of Defense (2017-2019) - moving from a top defense contractor's board directly into leading the Pentagon, a case commonly cited in reports on the revolving door's reverse direction.

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread, by reading this entity's record rather than by a term search. It is on this map through the national-security revolving door. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

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served on its board before becoming Secretary of Defense

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NOT A DEATH. Verified 2 September 2026 against Wikipedia, "James Mattis", fetched that day: he was "confirmed by the Senate on January 20, 2017", submitted his resignation on 20 December 2018, and "Trump abruptly accelerated Mattis's departure date to January 1, 2019". Both dates on this node match exactly. The article records a 2022 marriage and 2024 communications with Bob Woodward and carries no death notice: HE IS LIVING. RECORDED GRADE: fetched secondary source, not a primary document read by eye. It is recorded so a reader can check it, and it is the same grade as the fourteen death dates already on this map.