Major General Graham John Binns, CBE, DSO, MC is a retired British Army officer.
[10] In 1994, he spent some time as an exchange officer at the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.
[5] In January 1997,[6] Binns returned once again to The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and participated in exercises in Kenya, Belize and Canada.
[12] He served as Chief of Staff at HQ KFOR, a NATO-led force under a United Nations mandate that operated the military mission in Kosovo.
[17] Binns, having joined elements of 1st (UK) Armoured Division in Iraq where it formed HQ Multi-National Division (South East), Iraq, signed a memorandum of understanding that returned the responsibility for running the province of Basra to local Iraqi leaders.
He signed the document, along with General Mohan al-Furaiji and Governor Muhammad Wa'ili, in a disused departure lounge of Basra airport.
[21][22] In June 2010, Binns became chief executive of Aegis Defence Services, a private military and security company.
[citation needed] In June 2016, Binns remarked in a BBC report on the aftermath his campaign of in Iraq that "I don't think we had a coherent plan in the longer term.