Or maybe you don't know them in my time. I'm sure that 'band of brothers' ideology worked in your day, but things have changed since then. Significantly. Let me explain.

When you can turn on any news channel and hear a story about how soldiers were torturing 'terrorists' on camera - not for the first or second or third time, but the hundredth, or when we hear about them assaulting women - both their sisters-in-arms and women local to whichever area they're stationed in, then I think I do know them. If you want to claim those men as your 'brothers', you be my guest. Your naivety on the subject, frankly, is not only appalling but insulting.