Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
I'm becoming more and more a fan of Mattis every day.
Did you ever see his email on professional reading? It got sent around late fall 2003, just before he deployed. We posted it at H-War.

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrow...0WJA&user=&pw=

Of course, being the troublemaker that I am, I wrote to him to discuss a point he made in the email. We had an interesting exchange. He too is a fan of old books (I suggested old books in another thread). Another Marine who was "famous" for what he read was Evans Carlson. When he departed to travel the PLA's AOR in 1937 he took two books with him: The Education of Henry Adams and The Bible.