What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.