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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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