Pentagon in longest-ever stretch of leadership limbo

When he resigned as US defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor. Seven months later, the US still has no confirmed defense secretary. It's the longest such stretch in the history of the Pentagon. The leadership vacuum has nonetheless begun to make members of Congress and others uneasy.

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