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Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.
— Jim Mattis
Tags: will, support, you, waiting

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For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.
— Jim Mattis
Tags: honor, men, past, colors
As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
— Jim Mattis
Tags: how, more, know, hell
Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
— Jim Mattis
Tags: lot, iran, gain, enemy
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
Tags: enemy, reading, fight, you
You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.
— Jim Mattis
Tags: stay, reading, people, you
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