Mike Jackson Quotes
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.
Jackson, Mike. Soldier: The Autobiography. Bantam Press, 2007.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
Greek invaders were marching on Istanbul
Commenting on the hostilities between the Baltic states and the Russian government:
At that time there were extensive meetings and discussions for the creation of what was to be the United Nations. The negative view of the United Nations or other international security organization is now and always has been held by a vocal minority in the United States.
General Sir Michael David Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL is a retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an adjutant at the events of the Ballymurphy massacre (1971), where 11 unarmed civilians were shot dead by British troops, and then at Bloody Sunday (1972), when British soldiers opened fire on protesters, killing 14. On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint ambush (1979), the British Army's heaviest single loss of life during the Troubles. He was assigned to a staff post at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1982 before assuming command of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in 1984. Jackson was posted to Northern Ireland for the third time, as a brigade commander, in the early 1990s.
