7 Years Later, US Marine General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis and His Line on Aggressiveness Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

7 Years Later, US Marine General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis and His Line on Aggressiveness Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

He took a history degree at Central Washington in 1971 and a commission the following year, and never stopped reading. In 2003 he drove the 1st Marine Division from Kuwait to Baghdad. He ran NATO's transformation command, then US Central Command. In 2017 he needed a congressional waiver to become Secretary of Defense because he had been out of uniform only three years, and in December 2018 he resigned over Syria.