But there is no control to be had over this child army of riders.
Finally, a horrifyingly desensitised child army that it's OK to root for.
Coming home means coming to terms with a decade spent in a child army fighting against his own people.
Littlewoods M&S defector Myleene Klass oversees a child army of Santa's helpers and wraps presents at the touch of a finger – that's the "Littlewoods touch", naturally.
The following week, Lorde returned to her old school in Auckland, Belmont Intermediate, to judge a talent contest, and 500 pupils sang it to welcome her – a throaty child army, faintly formidable like Pink Floyd's urchins in The Wall.
In reality, this child army and its messianic, maniacal leader have waged a reign of terror responsible for the displacement of two million Ugandans, and the murders of thousands of innocent civilians.
Here, there are no child armies or genocidal pharmacy conglomerates, just poverty and struggle.
As the weaponry grew more deadly, the age of the warriors fell, and in the movie's later scenes, the opposing forces were child armies mowing one another down with lethal toys.
Some are dragged away to child armies, others are shot or succumb to disease or starvation, while securing food and water involves, inter alia, beating on pots to scare cheetahs away from the antelope that's just been brought down or sticking a reed into the ground to suck up a few drops of yellow water.
We've had child armies where they're told a plastic cross around your neck makes you impervious to bullet wounds.
