23 Years Later, General Jim Mattis’s Advice to His Marines in Iraq Is Still the Most Quoted Line in the Modern Military

23 Years Later, General Jim Mattis’s Advice to His Marines in Iraq Is Still the Most Quoted Line in the Modern Military

One rule on a list handed to Marines in Iraq became the most quoted sentence in the modern military. The full Mattis biography behind it: the 7,000-book library, the first Marine to command a naval task force, CENTCOM, the 98-to-1 confirmation, and the letter that ended it on principle.