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Jim Mattis
Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
Born: Sep 8, 1950
Enemy Fight Military People Will You
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In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. Jim Mattis
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There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. Jim Mattis
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. Jim Mattis
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I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don't buy it. Jim Mattis
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I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading. Jim Mattis
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No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans. Jim Mattis
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To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen. Jim Mattis
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child. Jim Mattis
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It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code. Jim Mattis
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Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust. Jim Mattis
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By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Jim Mattis
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There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role. Jim Mattis
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Engage your brain before you engage your weapon. Jim Mattis
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Fight with a happy heart. Jim Mattis
Heart Happy Fight
The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security. Jim Mattis
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We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice. Jim Mattis
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So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well! Jim Mattis
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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare. Jim Mattis
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There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads. Jim Mattis
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I don't think the U.S. military is conservative. It's pragmatic. Jim Mattis
Conservative Military Think Pragmatic
Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well. Jim Mattis
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Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought. Jim Mattis
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Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act. Jim Mattis
You Enemies Out Immoral Some More Take Than Create Act
Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country. Jim Mattis
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Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine. Jim Mattis
Enemy World Better Worse Demonstrate Friend Than Marine
Be the hunter, not the hunted. Jim Mattis
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