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Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

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For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

From James Mattis

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.

From James Mattis

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

From James Mattis

I don't write policy for my government.

From James Mattis

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

From James Mattis

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

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