IN THE LEAD Col
Joe D. Dowdy and Maj. Gen. James Mattis, U.S. Marine Corps 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. Dowody 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 tension of "men versus mission