British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace accused Prince Harry of “flagging” the number of people he killed during the mission in Afghanistan and of neglecting his comrades when he made the revelations, The Guardian reported, citing the News. ro.

The minister noted that success among the military is not measured by those who can shoot better.

Ben Wallace, himself a former soldier, has joined other senior veterans in criticizing the Duke of Sussex’s claim that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in the British Army.

Wallace said each ex-serviceman could “make their own choice about what they want to say”, but he would not personally reveal anything about his time as a captain in the Scots Guards.

“The armed forces are not for the reckoning,” Wallace told LBC radio on Thursday. “Frankly, swinging a balance sheet or talking about numbers distorts the very fact that the army is a team game,” the minister said.

He emphasized that serving in the army is “being a team” and any serviceman who goes into battle is supported by “hundreds of people” – either from the British headquarters or the Royal Logistic Corps who took and helped get there .

While also stressing that this is a personal opinion, Wallace said that he doesn’t think a person’s success in the military is measured by “who can shoot the most or who can’t shoot the most.”

Ben Wallace accuses Prince Harry of neglecting his friends

Wallace added that “when you start talking about who did what, you’re actually dismissing all other people because you’re not a better person than them just because you didn’t do it either.”

Prince Harry told in his memoir Spare how he was a gunner in an Apache attack helicopter during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2012.

Harry wrote that “in the age of helicopters and Apache laptops” it was possible to determine exactly how many enemy fighters he had killed.

“I think it is important not to be afraid of this number. So my number is 25. I’m not happy with that number, but I’m not embarrassed either,” he said.

Then the prince admitted that this was inhuman treatment, but he had extenuating circumstances:

“When I was in the fire and confusion of battle, I didn’t think of 25 people as people. They were chess pieces removed from the board. The bad people were eliminated before they could kill the good people,” he wrote.

Several retired British officers criticized the prince for his comments and said he had put his own security at risk with his revelations.

By the way, Prince Harry’s story in the book caused an angry reaction from the Taliban.