General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read
[Dear, "Bill"] The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience), i.e. the hard way. By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation
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Long March: Classic guerrilla warfare tactics helped bring Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists to power.Credit...S.M./SZ Photo — The Image Works (1934-35) For the counterinsurgency experts of a century ago, the extension of European empire into the Middle East offered exciting possibilities. The Italians bombed Libyans on the eve of World War I, but that was just the beginning. From 1919 onward,
The Force
The U.S. once regarded a standing army as a form of tyranny. Now it spends more on defense than all other nations combined.Photograph by Grant Cornett Sixty-two legislators sit on the House Armed Services Committee, the largest committee in Congress. Since January, 2011, when Republicans took control of the House, the committee has been chaired by Howard P. McKeon, who goes by Buck. He has never s
A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away (Published 2012)
HANCOCK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. — From his computer console here in the Syracuse suburbs, Col. D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended targets, going about their daily lives 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Sometimes he and his team watch the same family compound for weeks. “I see mothers with children,
Admiral Seeks Freer Hand in Deployment of Elite Forces (Published 2012)
WASHINGTON — As the United States turns increasingly to Special Operations forces to confront developing threats scattered around the world, the nation’s top Special Operations officer, a member of the Navy Seals who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels. The officer, Adm. William H. McRav
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