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EPISODE 3: Can Good Soldiers Still Exist In Bad Wars? with Major General James Cowan
What does it mean to serve, not just a nation, but humanity? Can a soldier who once led men into battle find peace in guiding others through minefields of the past?
Major General James Cowan’s journey — from the battlefields of Helmand to the minefields of Angola — is not just a soldier’s tale, but a meditation on what it means to lead with conscience in a world that too often forgets the cost of conflict. He has seen what war destroys and what peace demands. In his quiet return to the ruins of old battles, he asks not for glory, but for redemption — not just for himself, but for the nations that once promised more. Can power still serve a moral purpose? Can we hold on to our sense of duty when the noise of war fades and the world looks away?
The answers may not come easily. But in Cowan’s steady voice, we hear the echo of a deeper truth: that service does not end when the war is over. Sometimes, it only begins.