by Jim Proser
16. West and Smith, The March Up.
17. Margaret Warner, “A Marine’s View,” Public Broadcasting System Online News Hour, Sept, 26, 2003.
Chapter 4: Beyond Baghdad
1. Fick, One Bullet Away.
2. “Gen. James Mattis Q&A,” Small Wars Journal, May 24, 2010.
3. Andrew Anthony Bufalo, Not as Lean, Not as Mean, Still a Marine! Even More Marine Corps Sea Stories and Politically Incorrect Common Sense (Riverview, FL: S&B Publishing, 2004), 7.
4. Donald Rumsfeld, interview by Tim Russert, Meet the Press, NBC, April 13, 2003.
5. James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane, The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920 (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1922).
6. Ricks, Fiasco.
7. Dick Camp, Operation Phantom Fury: The Assault and Capture of Fallujah, Iraq (Minneapolis: Zenith, 2009), 33.
8. Reynolds, Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond, 155.
9. Ibid.
10. Madeline Conway, “9 Unforgettable Quotes by James Mattis,” Politico, December 12, 2016, https://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/james-mattis-quotes-232097.
Chapter 5: A Girl Named Alice
1. David Danelo, Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006).
2. Ibid.
3. John Dickerson, “Gen. James Mattis, USMC: The General Who Is Fighting a Constant Battle to Keep the Military Innovating,” Slate, August 9, 2011.
4. Blago Kirov, Napoleon Bonaparte: Quotes and Facts (BookRix, 2014).
5. Danelo, Blood Stripes.
6. Harry Kreisler, “Reflections: A Conversation with General James Mattis,” Conversations with History, University of California Television, June 5, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOc38ZwEO8s, at 3:19.
7. H. R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power (New York: Times Books, 1978), 122.
8. Henry A. Kissinger, news conference on the status of Vietnam peace negotiations, October 27, 1972, transcript. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/paris.htm
9. Sun Tzu, The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries (Shambhala, Kindle Edition, loc. 3559).
10. Ruth Sherlock, “Profile: General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, Donald Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Defence,” Telegraph, December 2, 2016.
11. Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, “19 Unforgettable Quotes from Retiring General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis,” Business Insider, January 23, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/general-maddog-mattiss-best-quotes-2013-1.
12. “Captain Mattis,” Task Force Trinity, April 20, 2013, http://www.taskforcetrinity.com/archives/2759.
13. “Iranians Overthrow the Shah 1977–1979,” https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/iranians-overthrow-shah-1977-79.
14. Ken Jordan, interview by author, April 10, 2017.
15. Ibid.
16. David Pittlekow, interview by author, June 28, 2017.
17. Ibid.
18. Ken Jordan, “Command Fitness Report—Captain James Mattis,” November 30, 1980, private collection of Ken Jordan.
19. Ibid.
Chapter 6: The Enemy of My Enemy
1. “Shlomo Argov,” obituary, Telegraph, February 24, 2003.
2. “Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing Fast Facts,” CNN.com, June 13, 2013, updated October 18, 2017, https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/index.html.
3. James Mattis, “Amphibious Raids: An Historical Imperative for Today’s Marines,” student paper, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA, 1985.
4. “Talking with the P.L.O.: From Birth through Terrorism to Dialogue with the U.S.,” New York Times, December 16, 1988.
5. Jim Proser, I’m Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004).
6. Elaine Sciolino and Michael R. Gordon, “Confrontation in the Gulf; U.S. Gave Iraq Little Reason Not to Mount Kuwait Assault,” New York Times, September 23, 1990.
7. “This Aggression Will Not Stand,” New York Times, March 1, 1991.
8. West and Smith, The March Up.
9. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, August 1990–March 1991, War in the Persian Gulf Operations: Desert Shield and Desert Storm, August 1990–March 1991 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2010).
10. Charles H. Cureton, U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990–1991 with the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm (Washington, DC: History and Museums Division Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1991).
11. James Clarke, “This Retro Interview Reveals A Young Jim Mattis Before He Was ‘Mad Dog,’” Task & Purpose, September 1, 2017.
12. Richard W. Stewart, American Military History: The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917–2003 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, US Army, 2009).
13. Paul Westermeyer, The Battle of al-Khafji (Washington, DC: US Marine Corps, History Division, 2008), sec. 2, http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/U.S.%20Marines%20in%20Battle%20Al-Khafji%20%20PCN%20106000400_2.pdf.
14. Cureton, U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf.
15. Ibid.
16. Ken Jordan, interview by author, September 26, 2017.
Chapter 7: Task Force Ripper
1. Cureton, U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 57.
2. Anonymous friend of Mattis family, interview by author, May 19, 2017.
3. Otto Kreisher, “Marines’ Desert Victory,” U.S. Naval Magazine 30, no. 1 (February 2016).
4. Ellis Group, “21st Century Maneuver Warfare.”
5. Frank Colucci, “Heavy Duty: Overhaul Under Way for Abrams Tank Engine,” National Defense, 1 September 2006, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Heavy+duty%3a+overhaul+under+way+for+Abrams+tank+engine.-a0151394635.
6. Richard P. Hunnicutt, Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank (Novato, CA: Presidio, 1984).
7. Cureton, U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 83.
8. Ibid., 70.
9. Ibid., 71–73.
10. Ibid., 73.
11. Ibid., 83.
12. Ibid., 79.
13. Ibid., 80.
14. Ibid., 82.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., 92.
17. Ibid., 103.
18. Ibid.
19. “The Badass of the Week: Chesty Puller,” Badassoftheweek.com, http://www.badassoftheweek.com/puller.html.
20. Claude W. Curtis, “The Tip of the Spear,” Leatherneck 74, no. 8 (August 1991).
21. Ibid.
22. “Death Highway, Revisited,” Time, March 18, 1991.
Chapter 8: The Sleeping Enemy
1. Bobby Ghosh, “How I Got Saddam’s Flag,” Time, January 22, 2008.
2. James N. Mattis, Concept of Command—Recruiting Duty (Quantico, VA: Archives Branch, USMC History Division, Marine Headquarters, 1983).
3. Lawrence R. Adair, The Macedonian Conundrum: Focal Point of the Balkans (Washington, DC: National War College, 1993).
4. Ibid.
5. Ashton B. Carter, John D. Steinbruner, and William J. Perry, A New Concept of Cooperative Security (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992).
6. Ibid.
7. Phillip Shenon, “Officials Say Size of Bomb Caught Military by Surprise,” New York Times, June 27, 1996.
8. Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).
9. Michael Ray, “James Mattis,” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Mattis.
10. “Paul Wolfowitz: 1943–,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/paul-wolfowitz.
11. U.S. Options in Confronting Iraq: Hearing before the Committee on International Relations, 105th Cong. 17 (1998).
12. Ibid.
13. Alan Sipress and Ellen Nakashima, “Jakarta Tenure Offers Glimpse of Wolfowitz: Indonesians Cite Stance on Rights, Reform,” Washington Post, March 28, 2005.
14. Rebuilding America’s Defenses
: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (Washington, DC: Project for the New American Century, 2000).
15. Mark Walker, “Mattis to Assume Command of I-MEF,” San Diego Union Tribune, June 2, 2006.
16. Nathan S. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001–2002: From the Sea (Washington, DC: US Marine Corps, 2011).
17. Gretel C. Kovach, “Just Don’t Call Him Mad Dog,” San Diego Union Tribune, January 19, 2013.
18. Michael L. Valenti, The Mattis Way of War: An Examination of Operational Art in Task Force 58 and 1st Marine Division (Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College Press, 2014).
19. “Forming: 27 October to 5 November 2001,” Strategy Page, https://www.strategypage.com/articles/tf58/forming.asp.
20. Joel Roberts, “Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11,” CBS News, September 4, 2002.
21. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, “Strategic Thoughts,” memorandum, September 30, 2001, Top Secret/Close Hold Document 13, National Security Archive.
Chapter 9: Graveyard of Empires
1. Mark Moyar, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009).
2. Colonel Nathan S. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001–2002: From the Sea (Tannenberg Publishing, Kindle Edition, loc. 2928).
3. Ibid.
4. Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010).
5. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Valenti, Mattis Way of War.
9. Clarke Lethin, oral history interview by Chris Warnke, January 17, 2002, US Marine Corps Oral History Division.
10. J. R. Wilson, “Enduring Freedom: The First 49 Days,” Defense Media Network, pt. 8, https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/operation-enduring-freedom-the-first-49-days-8/.
11. Valenti, Mattis Way of War.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. William Slim, Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942–1945 (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000).
15. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
16. Dickerson, “Gen. James Mattis, USMC.”
17. Bob Woodward, Bush at War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
21. Ibid.
22. Nathaniel C. Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kindle Edition, loc. 112).
23. Ibid.
24. Joseph R. Chenelly, “Marines Land, Seize Desert Strip,” November 25, 2001, Marines: The Official Website of the United States Marine Corps, http://www.15thmeu.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/545226/marines-land-seize-desert-strip/.
25. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Fick, One Bullet Away.
29. Ibid., 114.
30. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
31. Ibid.
32. Fick, One Bullet Away, 118.
33. Valenti, Mattis Way of War.
34. Fick, One Bullet Away, 107.
35. “Text: Pentagon Briefing with Rumsfeld and Myers,” Washington Post, November 26, 2001.
36. Lowrey, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Fick, One Bullet Away.
45. Ibid.
Chapter 10: City of Mosques
1. Conway, interview.
2. Garrett M. Graff, The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller’s FBI and the War on Global Terror (Boston: Little, Brown, 2011).
3. “Bush Speech: Full Text,” BBC News, May 2, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2994345.stm.
4. Anthony Shadid, “Iraqi Fighters Keep Up Attacks,” Washington Post, December 12, 2004.
5. Tony Perry, “Marines’ ‘Mad Dog Mattis’ Battles for Iraqis’ Support,” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2004.
6. “The Islamic State,” Mapping Militant Organizations, Stanford University, October 23, 2017, http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/1.
7. Zaki Chehab, Iraq Ablaze: Inside the Insurgency (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006), 8.
8. Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, “Sheikh of the Slaughterers,” ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015).
9. Robert H. Shultz, The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight against al Qaeda (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2013).
10. Ibid.
11. Ricks, Fiasco.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Geoffrey Ingersoll, “General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis Email about Being ‘Too Busy To Read’ Is A Must-Read,” Business Insider, May 9, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/viral-james-mattis-email-reading-marines-2013-5.
17. Ricks, Fiasco.
18. Ibid.
19. Reynolds, Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond, 149.
20. Nicholas J. Schlosser, U.S. Marines and Irregular Warfare: Training and Education, 2000–2010 (Quantico, VA: History Division, US Marine Corps, 2015).
21. Bing West, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq (New York: Random House, 2008).
22. Ricks, Fiasco, 319.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Conway, interview.
28. Ricks, Fiasco, 144.
29. Ibid., 320
30. Conway, interview.
31. Colin Wyers, “I MEF Takes Command in Western Iraq,” March 25, 2004, Marines: The Official Website of the United States Marine Corps., http://www.imef.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/534440/i-mef-takes-command-in-western-iraq/.
32. Kenneth W. Estes, U.S. Marine Corps Operations in Iraq, 2003–2006, occasional paper (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University, 2009), 14–15.
33. Georges Sada, interview by Sean Hannity, partial transcript from Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, January 26, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/01/26/exclusive-former-top-military-aide-to-saddam-reveals-dictator-secret-plans.html.
34. Camp, Operation Phantom Fury.
35. Ibid.
36. Ricks, Fiasco, 318.
37. Ibid., 315.
38. Bing West, No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (Random House, Kindle Edition, loc. 204).
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid., loc. 193.
41. West and West, No True Glory.
42. Tony Parkinson, “The Ugliness of Iraq’s Regime Continues to Be Revealed,” The Age, April 3, 2004, http://fddp.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/02/1080544690423.html.
43. West and West, No True Glory.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., 6.
48. Bing West and Ray L. Smith, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines (Random House, Kindle Edition, loc. 4622–4623).
49. Jean Edward Smith, Bush (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016).
50. Camp, Operation Phantom Fury.
51. Ibid., 35.
52. Ibid., 56.
53. Ricardo S. Sanchez, and Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
54. Terry H. Anderson, Bush’s Wars (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).