Fantastic book that will instill leadership advice with clear and concise explanations and real world examples. This should be required reading for any potential politician prior to being sworn into office.

You’ll be a better leader for it.

General Mattis shares his hard earned experiences about leadership forged by the crucible of the Marine Corps. The lessons he describes not only fit into the world of the military, they are clear lessons that can resonate with every leader in any domain. Very highly recommended reading.

It is so refreshing to read a book that is about leadership, and commitment to the constitution and democracy rather than politics. Thoughtful and disciplined thinking, with a focus on leadership supporting both military members and service to others rather than self. Teaches by setting an example through his career. Hard to put down.

Fantastic book on leadership showing that good leaders make mistakes, own them, and then move forward with lessons learned from those previous mistakes. Plus, it’s General Mattis.

Start to finish a great book. Lucky enough to have met the General briefly while in DC.

General Mattis and Bing West truly go into details of the reason General Mattis is the modern day Chesty Puller’s of the Marine Corp. His leadership, care for his troops while never compromising the mission is hands down one of the best leadership manuals for anyone. Highly recommend this read.

The narrator can’t pronounce a lot of words. Tarawa sounds like “Tear-Wa-Wa.” LoL

A fantastic memoirs from a well educated and devoted patriot. It is a memoir and therefore one sided by design. I was moved by his leadership prowess as well as his unwavering sense of service. I don’t doubt that every sentence of General Mattis’ beliefs and accounts are 100 percent factual in accordance with his knowledge and experience.

I’m sorry to say I felt that you short-sheeted the Marines that served during the Vietnam Nam era. As you know well , traditions are built upon other traditions We had the veterans of Korea but also some old salts from WWII still in the Corps in 1967 when I joined. Also at 17 But the point is that when you referred to us it was understood that we somehow didn’t measure up to “your Marines” or men that joined after Vietnam Nam I was with 3/26 at Khe Sahn and we didn’t smoke dope and we didn’t frag our officers. We may not stack up academically but as war fighters I believe we were at least as good if not better. we did not have stress cards during boot camp and our training was world class however our leadership was shown to be something less than that.Civilian I’m referring to. Anyway sir you were a general and I was a sergeant so we are bound to see things differently but I hope you understand that we may have been a little rough around the edges but we were every bit as brave and tough when when we needed to be Chesty never got the Good Conduct Medal ! Semper Fi