Last Updated on 01/10/2023 by てんしょく飯
Prince Harry’s autobiography, “SPARE,” is in Spanish bookstores ahead of its release on January 10, and its interesting contents are already making the rounds on the Internet.
Among the many gossipy stories, the details of Prince Harry’s military service are controversial.
With this confession, “Could he have been a target of terrorists?” and there has been an outpouring of concern and accusations that he disobeyed the long-standing custom of veterans not to speak out about what happened on the battlefield.
In “SPARE,” Prince Harry talks about what he has experienced since his own childhood, including conflicts with his father King Charles and brother Prince William, and the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
Among the controversial stories is one about Prince Harry’s time in military service in Afghanistan. British media outlets The Mirror, Daily Mail Online, and U.S. media outlet Suggest reported the story.
Prince Harry, who joined the British Army after graduating from Sandhurst Royal Military Academy in 2006, served two tours in Afghanistan, in 2007 and 2012, the first as a front-line air traffic controller guiding bombing attacks on Taliban forces, and the second as an attack During his second deployment, he was the pilot of the Apache helicopter.
Prince Harry, who flew on six missions during his second deployment, revealed in his book that he killed 25 Taliban soldiers.
He said that he saw the enemy fighters he killed not as “people” but as “chess pieces” to be removed from the board.
From the day I started my mission,” he said, “I targeted only Taliban soldiers. I tried to go to sleep without thinking about whether there were civilians around me when I attacked them, whether I was doing the right thing… I couldn’t sleep.
I wanted to return safely to England without losing a limb or being injured, but more than that I wanted to return with my conscience intact.”
Prince Harry, who “could say exactly how many enemy combatants he had killed,” said, “So my number [of kills] is 25. Not a satisfactory number, but not an embarrassing number either,” he wrote.
Prince Harry explained that after seeing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States by the radical Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda, “I wanted to defeat the ‘enemy of humanity’ and I should not be afraid of that number [of people I had killed].
This is the first time that Prince Harry has spoken in such detail about his military service in Afghanistan. As a member of the royal family, Prince Harry has long been considered a target of terrorists, and his military service has made him even more at risk.
Moreover, some people are concerned that Prince Harry’s personal safety could be threatened by this confession, and others fear that the prince’s family could also be attacked.
On the other hand, some have accused Prince Harry of “disobeying the long-standing practice of veterans to talk less about the war and never about the killing.
A former senior military officer noted that “Prince Harry’s comments were misjudged and could lead to attacks on British soldiers overseas.
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