'I feel personally it's important that I have to be able to empathise' He admits it was difficult achieving the tricky balance of finding sympathetic reasons for Nate’s action whilst not making excuses for him: However, the actor's focus wasn’t on whether Nate does find redemption, with Mohammed instead looking at how he could still empathise with the character despite his cruelty. That's a question that Mohammed has been asking himself, stating above that he does indeed hope that Nate learns from his mistakes.

Nate was a West Point Honor Graduate and was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart resulting from combat actions in Afghanistan.Mohammed there makes a good point that ultimately we shouldn’t be asking whether Nate will redeem himself - despite what actions he takes, what matters is whether both audiences and other characters forgive him.

He is currently writing a book on the topic of mentoring. Nate’s first book was a memoir of his time in the Army, “Two Wars,” and he co-authored a compilation of junior officer combat stories entitled “A Platoon Leader’s Tour.” He has written articles for Army Magazine, the Journal of Management Education, the Journal for Asynchronous Learning Networks, and several books. Nate lives in Central Texas with his wife and four children. Nate spends a portion of his time speaking on the topics of veteran transition and post-traumatic growth. Nate also led the development of an experience-based leadership simulation for the Army and the development of a military trivia mobile app for USAA. He has previously supported the Center for the Army Profession and Ethic (CAPE) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on knowledge transfer and mobile communications platforms. Nate is currently consulting in the medical sector, science & technology sector, and construction industry. The ensuing combat action resulted in a 15-hour firefight on a mountain peak, which has come to be known as “The Battle of Takur Ghar” or “Roberts Ridge.” While serving with an elite special operations task force in Afghanistan, Nate was called upon to lead a rescue mission into an Al Qaeda strongpoint to recover a missing-in-action Navy SEAL.

Nate graduated from West Point and served on active duty in Germany, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Army officer and founder of The Praevius Group, a contracting company with the U.S. Leadership development, mentoring experience & knowledge transfer, innovation, decision making, resilience

Two Wars by Nate Self