Prince Harry violated the military code of conduct in Afghanistan

• Prince Harry claims in his memoir Spare that he killed 25 Taliban.
• Major General Chip Chapman has called the claims ‘crassly and naively stupid’.
• Chapman described the claims as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘naive’ by the Duke of Sussex.

Prince Harry violated multiple military regulations of conduct by claiming in his memoir Spare that he killed 25 Taliban during his service in Afghanistan, according to reports.

The Duke of Sussex’s bombshell book landed on sale in Spain five days early, on January 10, 2023, and made headlines overnight with its stunning accusations.

In the book, Prince Harry revealed how many people he killed while serving in the British military as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan during two tours in 2007/08 and 2012/13.

Major General Chip Chapman, platoon commander in the Falkland Islands conflict, responded to these revelations by telling Times Radio: “We have a code of conduct. It’s the values and standards of the military and he’s broken at least four of those values that include respect for others, integrity, loyalty, and selfless commitment.”

The serviceman added: “You can’t be any more disloyal, either both to the Crown and the Crown being a member of your family, so from both of those perspectives it’s not really good… It’s crassly and naively stupid from Harry, his publishers and his ghost writer.”

Maj Gen Chapman, who previously worked as the head of counter-terrorism at the Ministry of Defence, added that he had never witnessed the ‘body count mentality’ displayed by Prince Harry with his allegations.

“You would have found it in Vietnam, it was the macro level thing. But it’s an awful lack of judgement and maturity. It’s a naive approach to how the military should act. We talk about jus in bello [International humanitarian law] conduct in war, this is a terrible conduct in peace.”

“Also, he was not on the ground. There’s no way that he could id anyone or bury them so to give a specific number is, quite frankly, slightly ridiculous,” Maj Gen Chapman stated.

“…This dissipates the affection which people would have held in him. Certainly, swinging lamps and saying you’ve killed ‘x number of people’, I’ve never come across that in darkened bars in the UK anywhere, it’s just not really talked about,” the army man concluded.

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