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Summary: The recent attacks in Paris and the subsequent debate and airstrikes in Syria have brought the realities of war back into the public eye and one man who has seen conflict and the effects of war at close hand is the recently retired Brigadier General Gerald Aherne who has served in Syria, Somalia, Chad, Liberia to name a few