Mike Jackson
Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.
If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.
You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.
Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.
Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.
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.Collection: Broken
A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.Collection: Race
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.Collection: Morning
You know, never say never.Collection: Never Say Never
Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Thinking