Inside the mind of ’Mad Dog’ Mattis
Peter Bergen
Fourth, they are critical of using the military for the kind of social experimentation that undermines, in their view, military readiness: ”Public debates allowing open homosexuals to serve and opening combat assignments to women show civilian attitudes strongly at variance with the military (especially those serving in ground combat units where the atavistic nature of warfare is most pronounced.
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