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23 Years Ago, General James Mattis’s Best US Marine Corps Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

Mattis’s line endures because he argued that battlefield success depends on intellect, reading and analysis, military leaders said.

Summary by 19FortyFive
General James Mattis: The press called him Mad Dog. His friends never did, and Dexter Filkins reported that Mattis disliked it. What the nickname buried was a man raised in a bookish household who carried a library of several thousand volumes through a career in the Marine Corps, wrote introductions to reading lists for the men under his command, and thought the preparation that mattered most happened before anyone reached the fight. He also wal…

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19FortyFive broke the news in Frederick, United States on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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