mad dog secretary of defense
“You cannot acquiesce any of your bodies to abstain the barbarous facts. If they alpha active in a dream world, it’s activity to be bad.” CNBC (Dec. 2, 2016) rated that account as one of Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis’ top quotes on administration and success.
["1280"]Frequently cited as one of the adults in the Trump White House, the retired Marine Corps General has declared war on the president’s admired target, “fake news.”
Unlike the commander-in-chief who berates the columnist at every befalling and prefers to crouch bottomward in his Twitter bunker, Mattis wants chief aggressive leaders to be as accessible and cellophane as accessible with the media.
["1280"]“Communications is the job of the commander, not aloof the accessible diplomacy officer,” he told a closed-door chief administration affair of generals and admirals on Oct. 6, according to a address in Defense One accounting by its controlling editor Kevin Bacon.
In a follow-up, Pentagon columnist secretary Dana White said the DOD “has the albatross to acquaint with the American bodies about what our aggressive needs to break the best baleful force on earth. The media plays a analytical role in that conversation.”
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Defense One acclaimed that Mattis’ allocution to aggressive leaders comes “amid some of the affliction columnist relations with adopted admiral in Washington back Watergate.”
The Secretary, who has bound his own columnist conferences in favor of breezy settings with reporters, believes a agnostic columnist is advantageous for the Pentagon.
["1160"]“I don’t see you all as adversaries. I see you as, at times, accustomed to be added agnostic than I can be in a administration role, and skepticism is allotment of a healthy—keeping the alignment healthy,” Mattis told reporters in August.
Mad Dog understands that the chargeless columnist and breeze of advice represent America’s strengths. He wants commanders to abstain the dream apple that is based on affected account because facts consistently celebration in the continued run.
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