All James Mattis Quotes
- You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta… Bad
- An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. Accomplishment
- Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down. Allow
- Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun. Face
- You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure… Been
- I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill… All
- When Gen. Abrial arrived to relieve me as the supreme commander, only dont ask, dont tell kept me from hugging and kissing him. Arrived
- The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. Blow
- I were to sum up what I've learned in 35 years of service, it's improvise, improvise, improvise. Improvise
- I don't get intelligence off a satellite. Iraqis tell me who the enemy is. Enemy
- I would also add that Al Qaeda was dumb. Add
- Marines don't know how to spell the word defeat. Defeat
- An untrained or uneducated Marine...deployed 2 the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment...than the enemy. Accomplishment
- It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's? Break
- In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a… Bomb
- None of the widely touted new technologies and weapons systems 'would have helped me in the last three years in Iraq and Afghanistan. But I… Afghanistan