Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.