far driven by strong winds with 5% of the fires contained. the trump administration racheting up thinly-veiled threats of war. right now it s a diplomatically-led, economic-sanked butt rest to try to turn north korea off this path. there is one thing that the u.s. army can do, you have to be ready to ensure that we have military operations that our president with employ if needed brian: in addition to mattis s direct comments, president trump took to twitter and said this, our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for 25 years. policy didn t work.