11 Quotes by Patrick Hennessey

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

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.

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

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

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

A young and clueless second-lieutenant straight out of the factory, I was very much surplus to the requirements.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

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

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