Former army major Simon Strombom is the managing director of the NZ Remembrance Army and served in Afghanistan. Strombom told RNZ he commanded troops from Nato nations and found them exceptionally professional. “I was heavily exposed to the professionalism and the challenges that the Nato, particularly British and the Canadian, troops had,” he said. “I’ve always had a hell of a lot of respect for the discipline of British troops, and the professionalism of them, even down to their territorial army,” he said. Trump's NATO Afghanistan claim condemned as insult to fallen troops.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 24, 2026 11:29 UTC