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

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.