Promoted to major general, Mattis led the 1st Marine Division during the early stages of the Iraq War, overseeing the longest sustained overland advance in Marine Corps history. The division returned to the United States in late 2003 but redeployed to Iraq the following year, and Mattis led the marine assault on Al-Fallūjah. In May 2004 Mattis received his third star, and he was assigned to the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Virginia. There he sought to disseminate the lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan to troops in the field, and he worked with U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus on Field Manual 3-24, a comprehensive counterinsurgency document.
Although known for blunt, sometimes provocative speech (in 2005 he described members of the Taliban as “fun to shoot”), Mattis was described by his peers as a “warrior monk” who embraced the Clausewitzian view of war as a political instrument. He established the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning, a training academy for marine officers and senior enlisted personnel, to instill cultural awareness and language skills, and he emphasized the “hearts and minds” approach to counterinsurgency operations. In 2007 Mattis was promoted to general and was chosen to lead Joint Forces Command, a training and planning unit that oversees the integration of the various branches of military service into a cohesive fighting force. After Gen. Stanley McChrystal was relieved as head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan in 2010, a command shuffle ensued with Petraeus assuming McChrystal’s role and Mattis replacing Petraeus as head of Centcom.
He established the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning, a training academy for marine officers and senior enlisted personnel, to instill cultural awareness and language skills, and he emphasized the “hearts and minds” approach to counterinsurgency operations.::
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