Only a few weeks into the war in Iraq, Marine Col. Joe D. Dowdy had both accomplished a gru eling military mission and been removed from his command by Maj Gen James Mattis The complicated and conflicting tales of why Col. Dowdy was dismissed are beyond the scope of this text, but one issue that came under examination was the differing styles of Col Dowdy and Gen. Mattis, as well as the difficult, age-old wartime sion of"men versus mission