Jim Mattis Is Going to Make the Military Great Again

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He commanded the first Marines to take the fight home to al Qaeda and the Taliban after 9/11. The first conventional U.S. troops into Afghanistan, these Marines made their way to Kandahar on the longest ship-to-shore assault in American history.

He led the storied First Marine Division on its march up Mesopotamia in 2003, shattering a much larger Iraqi force that was dug in to defend the approaches to Baghdad.* By this point, he had adopted the radio call-sign, “Chaos.”

He was still in command of the division during the First Battle of Fallujah, in the spring of 2004—a fight sparked by the hanging of the charred bodies of four American contractors from one of that city’s bridges. Prior to the battle, he changed the standing order for Marines regarding insurgents from “Capture or Kill” to “Kill or Capture.” – READ MORE

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