Prince Harry’s “ill-judged” feedback about killing 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan might incite an assault on British troopers, a former senior military officer has stated.
Colonel Richard Kemp, who took command of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003, instructed Sky News the prince’s suggestion that British troopers are educated to see their enemies as “less than human” was significantly harmful.
Harry writes about his two excursions of responsibility in Afghanistan in his extremely anticipated memoir, Spare, a replica of which Sky News obtained earlier than its launch subsequent week.
In it, the prince reveals that he killed 25 Taliban fighters and provides: “It was not something that filled me with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either.”
Asked concerning the duke’s feedback, Colonel Kemp instructed Sky News: “I think they’re probably ill-judged for two reasons. One is his suggestion that he killed 25 people will have reincited those people who wish him harm.”
Col Kemp, who retired in 2006, added: “The other problem I found with his comments was that he characterised the British Army basically as having trained him and other soldiers to see his enemy as less than human, just as chess pieces on a board to be swiped off, which is not the case. It’s the opposite of the case.”
He added it was these feedback “in particular” that would “incite some people to attempt an attack on British soldiers anywhere in the world”.
Source: information.sky.com”