Quote Originally Posted by L.F.F. View Post
Just been flicking through the other photos and there was a good quote under one of them:

When an out-going NATO commander-in-chief, a German, was asked by a reporter what was the world's best army, he answered "The world's best army is the one with American equipment, German officers, and British soldiers."

And I'm not being flippant, but I also found the ones of Sam Fox quite 'interesting'!
I got to play footsie with Sam that evening (perk of the job, somebody's got to do it).

Funnily enough, I'm a German speaker and in 1994 I gave lectures to the German Staff College and their School of Infantry about our time in Bosnia. In both places, a German officer asked me how I had managed to get my soldiers to do the things I needed them to do, some of which were extremely unpleasant and a bit dangerous. I could only say that the thought had never crossed my mind that they wouldn't and because I was doing it as well. It had obviously crossed their minds, though.