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Patrick Shanahan will become acting defense secretary as of January 1, after President Donald Trump hastened the departure of Jim ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis over the Syria withdrawal. But who is the former Boeing executive?Mattis offered his resignation last week after Trump ordered the withdrawal of all US troops from Syria and a significant drawdown in Afghanistan. In his resignation letter, the retired Marine general wrote that Trump deserves to have a secretary of defense “whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects.”After two days of media hand-wringing over Mattis’s heralded departure at the end of February – even raising the spectre of a military coup – Trump announced he would move up the general’s departure from the Pentagon to January 1, appointing Shanahan as the acting replacement.Also on rt.comMattis to leave on Jan 1, deputy Shanahan to replace him as acting defense secretary – TrumpLittle is know about Shanahan. He was nominated in March 2017 to be the d…