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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

One of the rules Maj. Gen. James Mattis gave his Marines to live by in Iraq, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks; as excerpted in Armed Forces Journal (August 2006)

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80 posted on 10/05/2015 3:14:11 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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“You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal … you can’t overcome bad culture.

You’ve gotta change whoever is in charge.”

Marine General James Mattis
Source: We Are the Mighty




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81 posted on 10/05/2015 3:19:59 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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