Pic of the Day: Mad Dog in Iraq
Who is this kindly looking older gentlemen between these two strapping young lads?
General Mattis
The Afghanistan Debacle Was Defined by a Single PowerPoint Slide From 10 Years Ago
SEALs learn very quickly that failure is the greatest teacher if you can recognize it when it happens. If you can’t you will just fail repeatedly.
Acting Secretary of Defense Miller Condemns ‘Acts of Violence Against Our Democracy’
As concern over our National Security swirls, acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller has drawn a firm line in the sand.
A Mattis Christmas
General Jim Mattis has been on our minds a lot lately, in large part due to his lead-from-the-front leadership style. This tale says it all.
Why Now Is the Best Time to Watch this Video of General Mattis
In sixteen short minutes, General Jim ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis completely re-calibrated my sense of what real leadership sounds like.
17 Brilliant Insights from Legendary Marine General James Mattis
Mattis has taken on the persona of a modern-day Patton — he has the ability to lead Marines through combat and back them if things go bad.
The Mattis way of war
Former Secretary of Defence General James Mattis’s no-nonsense approach to life is well-known. Before and during his tenure as SecDef, he pushed for more focus on warfighting and less emphasis on senseless exercises and training. Gauging by his time of military, and now public service, the Secretary of Defense appears to prefer logic, and not […]
Special Operations Infantry: The military plans for $60K base salary, 26 minimum age, $250K bonuses
In an attempt to create an elite force of close-combat war-fighters, the military is pondering a revolutionary set of proposals that would include huge monetary bonuses, a significant base salary, and a minimum age of 26-years-old. The Close Combat Lethality Task Force (CCLTF), which was launched by Gen. James Mattis during his tenure as Secretary […]
Combat ready: Marine Corps restructures its Marine Expeditionary Units
Like the Army, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is modernizing to meet emerging threats. These efforts are most evident in the Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs). Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) are small and flexible combined-arms units that can act as a theater quick-reaction force. They’re designed around a reinforced battalion, also known as the Battalion […]
Pentagon commits to NATO’s cyber defense
Washington, D.C., United States—The Pentagon is about to offer its cyberwarfare technology and capabilities to the service of its NATO allies. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to make the announcement after a meeting with his NATO colleagues later in the week. The decision follows an agreement reached during a NATO summit in the […]
Here’s what Jim Mattis learned when he sat down and talked to a man who tried to kill him during the Iraq war
On a summer morning in a desolate corner of Iraq’s western desert, Jim Mattis learned he’d narrowly evaded an assassination attempt. A Sunni Arab man had been caught planting a bomb on a road shortly before Mattis and his small team of Marines passed by. Told the captured insurgent spoke English, Mattis decided to talk […]
Mattis was on vacation when Trump tweeted transgender ban, and he was reportedly ‘appalled’ by it
When President Donald Trump tweeted his reversal of the Obama-era decision to allow transgender people to openly serve in the military on Wednesday, his secretary of defense, Jim Mattis, was on vacation and appalled by the move, according to the New York Times. Mattis apparently only had one day’s notice about the decision, which he had […]
