When I was in Rwanda, I saw child soldiers on all sides, but I didn't see them. I just saw them as combatants, and if I saw them as combatants, then I would have acted accordingly. Realizing that these were kids being used as combatants, finally, changed the whole nature of what I should be doing. The impact of that, and seeing that, and taking action against children has had a catastrophic effect on me and many of those who served with me. We realized that we had not faced this thing before. These were not just a couple of kids on the sidelines. These were the main, sustaining forces that were doing the main work. How do you handle that?
That's why I've been at it since 2004, and Dr. Whitman has been with me since 2008, building our institute as a world capability of in fact reducing the impact on our soldiers of facing child soldiers by giving them tools, new tactics and new ways to be able to handle them without having to go kinetic.
I'll let Dr. Whitman continue.