📚 node [[mattis]]
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  • In [[fiction]] showing [[mercy]] often is punished by the plot.
  • "You hang out with nightmares to... So you build a [[relationship]] with very, very [[dark]] forces, because you're going to encounter them" [[shadow]]
  • "[[Empathy]] may be as important a weapon as an assault rifle."
  • "The vital [[ground]] is a not a mountaintop or a key road. It's a [[people]]."
  • "Operations occur at the speed of [[trust]]."
  • "[[Attitudes]] are caught, not taught" [[prestige]]
  • "[[Victory]] is not an abstraction".
  • " Any planning construct that strives to provide mechanistic [[certainty]] is at odds with reality and will lead you into a quagmire of paralysis and indecision "
  • "Adaptation is smarter than you are"
  • "If you have murky or changing [[political]] end states, then you don't know how to end that war. If you don't know how to end the war, the [[war]] will go on and on."
  • "The treacherous curtain of [[deference]]"
  • "If a democracy does not [[trust]] its troops, then it should not go to war"
  • "I have seen no case where [[weakness]] promotes the chance for peace"
  • Come unto me and I will make you [[leaders]] of men
  • "You must unleash [[initiative]], rather than suffocate it."
  • "Nothing compensates for a lack of [[trust]]. Lacking trust, your unit will pay a steep price in combat."
  • Questions as a commander: collapsed:: true
    • What do I know Who needs to know Have I told them
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