The prince’s comments about Afghan war deaths have caused a furore, but much of what he says is true, says former soldier and Afghan war veteran Joe Glenton
The prince’s comments about Afghan war deaths have caused a furore, but he was a decent officer, I’m told, and much of what he says is true
‘A decent, rather laddish officer who did his job.’ Prince Harry wears a monocle gun sight as he sits in the front seat of his Apache helicopter.‘A decent, rather laddish officer who did his job.’ Prince Harry wears a monocle gun sight as he sits in the front seat of his Apache helicopter.A s a former soldier, I’ve followed Prince Harry’s career with a mix of ironic and genuine interest. We served at similar times and in the same war. Friends who worked alongside him in the Household Cavalry and Army Air Corps reflect that he was a decent, rather laddish officer who did his job – which is about the highest accolade available to anyone who went to Sandhurst..
Yet it seems to me that when he talks about his experiences of war, Harry is, knowingly or not, expressing sensations common to many Afghanistan veterans. He does not regret killing the 25 Taliban soldiers he claims to have slain as an Apache gunner. Yet he seems to understand quite well the processes that have allowed him toIt is not possible to kill someone “if you see them as a person”, he says, but the army had “trained me to ‘other’ them and they had trained me well”.
Whether this is a brag, a lament or a statement of fact is unclear, though I suspect it is the last. I’m quite interested in whether his understanding of the concept of othering is a sign of his own political development, or a term picked up
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