You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

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

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

There's just so much negativity that surrounds sub-cultures of people in the USA, and I think the fact that technology has caught up, we're going to capture a lot of these moments and share them with the world.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

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.

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