That imperative keeps getting harder to recognize in this age of a hostile congress more concerned with moral preening and buying votes then national defense.
It is a professionally recruited force and recruiting is a difficult business where only those who establish effective sales system and train a serious sales force with that system will thrive.
Those who believe the arc of history will deliver us to an enlightened state where Marines in contact will always be tame enough to make senior naval officers comfortable inside their lines are deluded.
When asked by one of the guys what he considered his most dangerous and for that matter, frightening experience during the war.
If the navy has already reduced manning levels by 50% with their optimal manning program that additional loss of manpower is crippling.
Description: Mattis is well read and I doubt he believes in the politically correct nonsense regarding humans ability to speed up or slow down the climatic changes that have existed since the birth of this planet.