Quotes by : Patrick Hennessey

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander....

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of....

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

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly....

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

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

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