I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.