I went down to be with a Ranger platoon on an operation in Afghanistan, and on that operation, a sergeant in the platoon had lost about half his arm throwing a Taliban hand grenade back at the enemy after it had landed in his fire team.

I firmly believe that emphasis needs to be placed on the accountability of the officers of contingents to which the perpetrators belong, from contingent to company and platoon commanders.

In April, a platoon of Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) border security personnel crossed the so called line of actual control into India s Depsang Valley in Ladakh to erect an encampment, where they remained for almost three weeks. China s leaders have yet to explain what prompted the incursion but there is no shortage of speculation.

And I would travel in a C 130 transport and go and visit warlords in mountain hideaways and negotiate with them about how we were going to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, surrounded by my Special Forces escort, who, themselves, had to have an escort of a platoon of Royal Marines, because it was so dangerous.

(e) Units that would support the deployed military units as well as other elements of the mission, such as a military police company, a heavy cargo transport company, a riverine unit, a bridging unit, aviation units, hospitals levels II and III, a well drilling company, a signals company, air load teams, air medical evacuation teams and a petroleum platoon and movement control unit