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Jim Mattis

Most people know nobody in the military.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

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

Jim Mattis

I don’t write policy for my government.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

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

Jim Mattis

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

– Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis

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

Jim Mattis

I’ve had some ‘riotous excursions of the human spirit’ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

– Jim Mattis

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