[RoosterRedux]

Mattis knows how to win.

Have watched this on “Generation Kill” and have read the accounts. Mattis got it right.

Generation Kill isn’t best account but it’s reasonably good.

Am reading Nate Fick’s “One Bullit Away”...Very good.

[Psalm 73]

"Am reading Nate Fick’s “One Bullit Away”...Very good."

Read it when it first came out. Good account, but I remember it not flowing very well - unlike Bing West who has a true writer's grasp of construction.

[Tallguy]

Schwarzkopf was faced with the same decision in Desert Strorm. Gen. Fred Franks’ 7th Corps was behind schedule. Schwarzkopf was leaning toward replacing him with the 3rd Army’s Chief of Staff, Calvin Waller. But he figured it would be all over soon, and it might actually slow things down.

[rlmorel]

Not a Marine, but I read No True Glory by Bing West about the Battle for Fallujah, and it is impossible, in my opinion, to read that and not admire Gen. Mattis.