23 Years Later, US Marine Corps General Mattis Divided the World Into 2 Kinds of People in 7 Words and Told His Marines to Pick

23 Years Later, US Marine Corps General Mattis Divided the World Into 2 Kinds of People in 7 Words and Told His Marines to Pick

The creed survives on two tracks: the spoken line preserved by a lieutenant who heard it, and the written Message published that same March. Then came the proof — the 500-mile march, the hardest relief in four decades, and the Fallujah year that taught the lesson at policy scale.