Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

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

I think a lot of people think that just because you have a celebrity attached to your company, that all things are easy. I don't have a stat to back this up, but my experience has shown me that more often than not, celebrity production companies fail.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

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