CABINET/DEFENSE/JAMES MATTIS: "The White House is drafting a presidential directive that calls on Defense Secretary James N. Mattis to devise plans to more aggressively strike the Islamic State, which could include American artillery on the ground in Syria and Army attack helicopters to support an assault on the group’s capital, Raqqa, officials said."
– “Trump Will Call for a Pentagon Plan to Hit ISIS Harder, Officials Say,” The New York Times online, Jan 26, 2017, Michael R. Gordon, Helene Cooper, and Eric Schmitt, 1/26/2017