^#DOWNLOAD@PDF^# Holding The Line Inside Trump S Pentagon With Secretary Mattis [EBOOK]

holding the line inside trump s pentagon with secretary mattis

'This is the memoir America wishes Jim Mattis had written.'The Washington PostFor all of you who've been waiting for a tell-all account of Jim Mattis' 710 days as President Trump's first Pentagon chief, that book has now been written.'NPRSnodgrasss account of the wild briefing provides a taste of his on-the-record, eyewitness candor about the two years Mattis spenttrying to keep things from spinning out of controla candor readers will not find in the former defense secretarys own circumspect memoir.Snodgrasshas stepped forward to fill some of the vacuum created by Mattiss silence.Snodgrass saw more than enough for his memoir to take its place in the growing annals of government dysfunction.NYT'[T]his book is a graduate course in understanding the dynamics and processes at the highest level of the U.S. military.'CIMSEC[A] fly-on-the-wall view of how the retired general operated at the Pentagon amid myriad crises, from issues with North Korea and Iran to trying to get on the same page with a chaotic White House.Task & Purpose[A] must-read (if not a cautionary tale) for any professionalsmilitary or otherwisewho desire access to the biggest levers of power.Military.com Guy 'Bus' Snodgrass recently served as director of communications and chief speechwriter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis. A former naval aviator and F/A-18 pilot, he served as a commanding officer of a fighter squadron based in Japan, a TOPGUN instructor, and a combat pilot over the skies of Iraq as part of his twenty-year navy career. Today he is the founder and CEO of Defense Analytics, a strategic consulting and advisory firm.