Patrick Hennessey quotes:

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

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

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

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.

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