THE PRESIDENT’S ‘TANK’ SESSION: No decisions were made at the Pentagon yesterday, as President Trump brought his national security team to sit down with his top civilian and military leaders in the joint chiefs’ secure briefing room known as “the Tank.” The two-hour session was “a walk around the world to talk about where we have challenges and where we have opportunities,” said Dana White, chief Pentagon spokesperson. “What are our levers of influence, economically, politically, militarily and diplomatically.”

White said the meeting was scheduled a while back and was never intended to be a decision meeting, and while all the world hot spots were touched on, this was also not a briefing on the new Afghanistan strategy, which is still a work in progress. “It’s still being worked on,” White said. “The Afghan strategy is party of a broader strategy,” she said and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis only has one piece of it. “There no decision. It’s still a point of discussion,” White said.