{"id":64855,"date":"2018-12-28T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=64855"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:02:59","slug":"us-defence-secretary-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/us-defence-secretary-resigned\/","title":{"rendered":"US Defence Secretary Resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: who retired from the post of US Defence Secretary recently? <\/strong><br>(a) James Mattis <br>(b) Mike Pompeo <br>(c) Nikki Halley <br>(d) Rex Tillerson <br><strong>Answer: (a) <br>Related facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">null<li>Defence\nSecretary of the United States <strong>James Norman Mattis<\/strong> announced his resignation from the\npost on 21<sup>st<\/sup> December. The 68 year old was the 26<sup>th<\/sup>\nDefence Secretary of US and was widely respected as the ablest administrator in\nTrump`s administration. <\/li><li>The\nSecretary of Defence is the <strong>Chief of\nPentagon<\/strong> and the personal assistant to the President in Defence matters.\nThis post is somewhat equivalent to the post of Defence Minister in other\nRepublics. <\/li><li>The\nresignation came a day after <strong>US\nannounced to withdraw its troops from Syria<\/strong>. <\/li><li>James Norman Mattis is the 26<sup>th<\/sup>\nSecretary of Defense and a former United States Marine Corps general. He\ncommanded the 1st Marine Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and served\nas the 11th Commander of United States Central Command during the Presidency of\nBarack Obama.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/james-mattis-step-us-defense-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/james-mattis-step-us-defense-secretary\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-46640114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-46640114<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: who retired from the post of US Defence Secretary recently? (a) James Mattis (b) Mike Pompeo (c) Nikki Halley (d) Rex Tillerson Answer: (a) Related facts: null Defence Secretary of the United States James Norman Mattis announced his resignation from the post on 21st December. The 68 year old was the 26th Defence Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}