{"id":721656,"date":"2010-04-22T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82967"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:33:45","slug":"gen-mattis-leaves-door-open-to-next-military-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721656","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Mattis Leaves Door Open to Next Military Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82052\/odierno-set-to-leave-iraq\">I speculated on Gen. James Mattis&#8217; future in the military<\/a>, now that Gen. Ray Odierno is set to take over for him at Joint Forces Command. Mattis is a four-star Marine general. He&#8217;s leaving a major command. The military is an up-and-out system &#8212; you either get promoted or you call it a day. I wondered if he was going to become Commandant of the Marine Corps, the most obvious position open to him. So, Marine Corps Times asked, is Mattis retiring?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis fall my tour at JFCOM is complete,\u201d he said in an e-mail to Marine Corps Times. \u201cAt this rank, my future is up to the DOD leadership\/Cdr in Chief, so I\u2019ll see what, if anything, they intend for me to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coy as it may seem, that&#8217;s the equivalent of posting his resume for the next job. <span id=\"more-82967\"><\/span>And Marine Corps Times pretty clearly wants Mattis&#8217; next job to be Commandant of the Marine Corps, as you can see from the article produced. It&#8217;s not surprising: Mattis is one of the most respected generals in the entire military; easily the most respected Marine general; a commander of Marine infantrymen in Iraq; and a counterinsurgency scholar-practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>This is all <a href=\"http:\/\/vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=3989\">via Richard Allen Smith of VetVoice<\/a>, who observes, &#8220;For anyone who has an interest in COIN, this is a good thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I speculated on Gen. James Mattis&#8217; future in the military, now that Gen. Ray Odierno is set to take over for him at Joint Forces Command. Mattis is a four-star Marine general. He&#8217;s leaving a major command. The military is an up-and-out system &#8212; you either get promoted or you call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31JC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}