He seems like a great guy to serve under as he always has his guy's back but he is very detached from the collateral damage he causes while seeming very sympathetic to the direct damage he causes.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/01...y-has-already-brought-us-to-the-brink-of-war/
"Mattis has, in fact, been tied to some of the worst war crimes of the Iraq invasion. It was he who gave the order to attack the village of Mukaradeeb in April 2004 — a decision he would later
admit took him only 30 seconds to approve — which killed 42 civilians, including 13 children, who were attending a wedding there. “I don’t have to apologize for the conduct of my men,”
he told reporters."
"Six months later, in November 2004, it was Mattis who planned the Marine assault on Fallujah that reduced that city to rubble,
forced 200,000 residents from their homes, and resulted,
according to the Red Cross, in at least 800 civilian deaths."
https://www.globalresearch.ca/did-defense-secretary-james-mattis-commit-war-crimes-in-iraq/5607347
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-p...l-i-experienced-his-attack-fallujah-firsthand
Again, I think he is the best in this admin, with HR Mcmaster.