>Mattis is known for a singular focus on military history, tactics and strategy, traits that, along with his unmarried status, led to his Warrior Monk nickname. He is said to have a personal library of 7,000 books and during deployments often took with him “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,” quotes from the Roman emperor and stoic philosopher. His Mad Dog nickname appears to be a reference to his combative nature on and off the battlefield.
>The Los Angeles Times said Mattis is known as a hard-charging but scholarly leader who is as likely to quote from Shakespeare or Greek poets as military strategists in speeches.
Blake Gray
Military strategy is just applied philosophy
Adam Brooks
Mattis is genuinely a highly intelligent and thoughtful person. He's also not a pussy.
Colton Jones
so definitely not Veeky Forums at all.
Jason Moore
It's too bad he became a shill for bad business after he left the service.
Asher Hughes
>"made it" >unmarried military man
kek.
Landon Russell
Yep.
Wyatt Rivera
He'd better not have his Defense Secretary nomination fucked up. Him running the Pentagon would be the best thing to happen to the military in decades.
Dominic Allen
Pretty based
Mike Tyson is another famous Veeky Forumsizen, becoming Veeky Forums after his stint in prison
Ayden Turner
10/10 would follow
Brandon Allen
James Franco
Joshua Rogers
all i know of him is that incident where he relieved one of his officers of command, and also relieved him of all his ammo too
Jeremiah Bell
>likely to quote from Shakespeare or Greek poets
Wow, high school grade English education
Cameron Ross
>He is said to have a personal library of 7,000 books and during deployments often took with him “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,”
Damn. Nice.
Rustled queef detected.
Jackson Green
>I'm going to act impressed of sub freshman literary displayed by a top government official because its politically expedient
You' fucking pathetic
Hunter Hall
>Written among the Hadjis at Fallujah
Luis Collins
>unmarried Closet gay that is still compensating with a military career and pseudo intellectualism. Very Veeky Forums.
Jackson Butler
>politically expediant What on earth are you talking about?
Daniel Cox
You know what, stop playing pussyfoot son
Owen Torres
>On December 1, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that Mattis would be nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Defense in the coming administration.[4]
Xavier Wright
If this guy were some local kid you'd call him a pretentious pseud and make a fedora joke.
James Fisher
Fuck you cuck
Based Trump picked him because he's a Napoleon Tier military genius Just because he doesn't read your nu male poetry
Faggot MAGA cuck Nu-male Muslims fuck Trump (((them))) media know virtue signalling anymore you redpilled
Dominic Nelson
correct
Carter Carter
somehow the sam hyde thread will spill over into this
i cannot wait for 200+ replies
Isaac Thompson
>>I'm going to act impressed
If he truly does have a library of 7,000 books that is genuinely impressive.
>of sub freshman literary displayed
Do you really know what all 7,000 titles in his library are? I don't. Why are you doing this? Why are you pretending to know more about his taste than you could possibly glean on such limited information?
And how pseud do you have to be to write off Marcus Aurelius as "sub freshman" lit? Are you serious? You think after a certain stage people should be "done" reading Aurelius then? There's no more need for a man to continue reading him later in life at all?
If anyone is being pathetic here it's you. Go and be a buttvexed twat somewhere else.
Daniel Hill
You can be down syndrome and own a ton of books, doesn't mean shit
Alexander Ramirez
You lost. Accept it already.
Enough of your pseud-addled displays of resentment. Aurelius is "sub freshman"... what a fucking ivory tower pussy you are.
Jeremiah Lopez
A subtle way of starting a Sam Hyde thread.
Aaron Taylor
>shit he has me >I'll just start repeating myself and be more obnoxious, that usually works
Isaac Diaz
Nickname(s) >"Chaos" (callsign) >"Warrior Monk" >"Mad Dog
Ian Collins
>>shit he has me
I should be saying that about you. And you know it too. The second you showed how pseud you were by writing off Aurelius off as sub freshman you knew you tripped over yourself.
Dominic Cruz
>chaos kek wills it
Asher Thompson
this is clearly a shitpost but I still agree with it.
Justin Ward
Someone call Hiro thread must be bugged seeing duplicates being posted
Levi Reed
>Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun. For all the “4th Generation of War” intellectuals running around today saying that the nature of war has fundamentally changed, the tactics are wholly new, etc, I must respectfully say… “Not really”: Alex the Great would not be in the least bit perplexed by the enemy that we face right now in Iraq, and our leaders going into this fight do their troops a disservice by not studying (studying, vice just reading) the men who have gone before us.
>We have been fighting on this planet for 5000 years and we should take advantage of their experience.
>I have a problem with those who carry an ahistorical view of war into acceptance of the latest bumper sticker; war in its various permutations is not new to me and some folks have glommed onto 4th Generation of War concepts to say everything is new, history has little (no?) place anymore because of how different things are, etc.
reactionary af
i wonder if he's read evola
Owen Nelson
You vastly over estimate the awareness of Evola outside this forum
Anthony Bell
You were so triggered and deluded that you tried to claim (and still claim, apparently) to know what all 7,000 titles in his library are.
You literally cannot save face ITT.
Aaron Cox
>The second you showed how pseud you were by writing off Aurelius off as sub freshman you knew you tripped over yourself.
That's true though, any high schooler can pick up some Aurelius quotes, sure you could have some more sophisticated reading of The Meditations but where's your proof Mad Dog does anything but reduce it to naive platitudes that only suits his own previously inclinations?
Caleb Lopez
I do though, I have the full list. They're pretty laughable
Robert Campbell
If I ever make it, I'll come back to Veeky Forums for a Q&A.
Andrew Harris
Not sure about Mattis, but Steve Bannon mentioned both Dugin and Evola in a speech once.
Leo Moore
I'm not going to do the same thing that the other pussy wounded user is doing. I won't speculate because I don't know.
All I'm saying is on the surface of it 7,000 titles in a library is clearly impressive and anyone who'd try to arrogantly purport otherwise is very clearly in denial and annoyed over something else.
Brandon Hall
post list or some link to it
Nathan Gonzalez
You do realise you can exchange books for money right? Have you ever bought a book? Because that would explain a lot
Xavier Morales
Can't, its classified and I don't want to get v&
Cooper Rogers
well golly gee i neva knew u cld do dat betta git ter sum "REEEDIN" now!
You really are such a fucking try hard, cunt.
Bentley Sanchez
His fedora is fine because he's a general. If he were a guy from your class citing Shakespeare and the Greeks and carrying Meditations in his pocket you'd call him a pseud neckbeard.
Anthony Sanchez
>2016 >Unironically bein' a Meditations-readin', Aurelius-fellatin', Stoic-lovin' cuck
Do people even read this stuff?
The Stoics were pathetic. The Meditations were the writings of a man who won much but lost more - a loser, in the end. I'd be more impressed if he lived in a barrel and told Trump to get out of his sunlight.
Zachary Young
6/10. Might get a few.
Ryder Bennett
>wasting your time on marriage
stay pleb
Hunter Myers
I wasn't actually baiting. This is genuinely what I think.
Veeky Forums's fascination with Aurelius and his Meditations has always been lost on me - particularly if they've read the Greeks, as they allege, who are better by every metric. Aurelius wrote in Greek, which should tell you something.
Daniel Anderson
>I wasn't actually baiting. This is genuinely what I think.
I thought you were intentionally lampooning a younger poster. That edgelord pic. The Diogenes reverence. Fairly stereotypical of younger posters around these parts.
Daniel White
If only he wrote his own Meditations.
Colton Diaz
Mattis is a giant cunt.
Sebastian Turner
Gay. I guarantee it.
Charles Thomas
I think it's important to try to appreciate a work of art or thought apart from stories about the artist or thinker, but since Meditations is useful insofar as it's a manual for living well, I have trouble taking seriously the advice of a man who used massive amounts of opium to cope with a publicly adulterous wife.
Leo Young
>Alex the Great
Aaand dropped.
Lucas Watson
Double winking? Anywho what does he read?
Elijah Hughes
Cast your spells somewhere else.
Easton Gomez
>you are either a virgin or you marry
keks
Jaxon Gutierrez
That is the joke, dumb dumb.
Levi Green
He's intelligent and a strong person he is the antithesis of Veeky Forums
Jaxon Davis
Why aren't these threads deleted?
Daniel Lee
Supposedly he's reading just about every minute he's not on camera. I've heard interviews mention Camus and Ulysses but I think both of those were when he was on Freaks and Geeks.
Austin Rogers
Wonder how long before he becomes too exasperated with Trump's functional illiteracy and mouths off and gets replaced.
Zachary Parker
The OP mentions the word Book, thus its on topic
Landon Long
Because this is a board on Veeky Forums, laidback, detached topics like this are the norm. We're not here to be the serious republic of letters you didn't manage to be part of irl.
Parker Murphy
>lmao Drumpf can't read aren't I so smart I'm way smarter than DRUMPF!!!! LMAO did you know that DRUMPF can't read!?