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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

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

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

War is failure of diplomacy.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

The army teaches boys to think like men.