Quotes by James Mattis

James Mattis

Since 9/11 we’ve been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

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Soccer

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The American people and the American military will never get used to civilian casualties. And we will – we will fight against that every way we can possibly bring our intelligence and our tactics to bear. We’re not the perfect guys, but we are the good guys.

The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we’ve been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn’t seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

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The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

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The importance of strengthening Euro-Atlantic security: the growing dangers pile pressure on our rules-based international system, so we need to do more to strengthen NATO, the bedrock of our defense – not just upping spending, but making the alliance more agile and more capable of tackling dangers from all directions.

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Importance

Strengthening

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Ears

Enemy

Important

The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries – Libya, Somalia, Yemen.

Country

Taken

War

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline…you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Discipline

Hunters

Military

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don’t think you do. It’s just business.

Hate

Order

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Quotes by James Mattis

James Mattis

The American people and the American military will never get used to civilian casualties. And we will – we will fight against that every way we can possibly bring our intelligence and our tactics to bear. We’re not the perfect guys, but we are the good guys.

The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we’ve been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn’t seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries – Libya, Somalia, Yemen.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline…you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don’t think you do. It’s just business.

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