Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
– James Mattis, US Marine Corps Commander, instructing his troops as they deployed to Iraq
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In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony—even vicious harmony—on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.
– James Mattis, Marine Corps Commander