Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

- Mike Jackson

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

- Mike Jackson

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

- Mike Jackson

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.…

- Mike Jackson

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

- Mike Jackson

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

- Mike Jackson

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

- Mike Jackson

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

- Mike Jackson

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

- Mike Jackson