In his highly anticipated memoir titled ‘Spare’, Prince Harry wrote that he killed 25 people while serving in Afghanistan. Prince Harry had spent 10 years in the British Army, including two frontline tours in Afghanistan.
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“Most soldiers don’t know exactly how many kills they have to their credit. In battle conditions, you often fire indiscriminately. However, in the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did over the course of two tours of duty was recorded and timed,” Prince Harry wrote of his time in Afghanistan.
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“He could always tell exactly how many enemy combatants he had killed. And it seemed fundamental to me not to be afraid of that figure. Among the many things I learned in the Armed Forces, one of the most important was being responsible for my own actions,” he continued.
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However, Prince Harry told how he felt after his experience in Afghanistan.
So my number: twenty-five. It wasn’t something that filled me with satisfaction, but it didn’t embarrass me either. Naturally, I would have preferred not to have that figure on my military resume, or in my head, but I would also have preferred to live in a world without the Taliban, a world without war. However, even for a casual illusionist like myself, there are realities that cannot be changed,” he wrote according to The Guardian.
