The British army doesn’t want you to know what it did in Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/12/the_british_army_doesnt_want_you_to_know_what_it_did_in_afghanistan_partner/



The Defense Ministry's own report describes flaws in its Afghanistan operation. Now they want to keep it quiet

The British army doesn’t want you to know what it did in Afghanistan
Corinne Purtill, GlobalPost
Saturday, Apr 12, 2014 03:00 PM EST

Three years ago, the Defense Ministry commissioned a young officer to write a book about British military operations in Helmand Province, the volatile region in Afghanistan that has claimed hundreds of British casualties.

This week, the book’s publishers handed out fliers instead of hardbacks at book launches as the ministry made a last-ditch effort to keep its own history from going to press.

The author, former reserve Captain Mike Martin, 31, was forced to resign from the army to publish an account that offers unsparing criticism of the intelligence flaws and institutional failures he found in the Helmand operations.

The military fought publication of “An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict” on the grounds that it includes classified materials, such as cables previously published by WikiLeaks.

[Jesus Malverde]

1. History will show the brits getting their asses kicked time and time again.

At least this time they had a graceful defeat.

[PumpkinAle]

2. What?

This makes no sense.

While this book will expose the things the British did, you can't believe the same wasn't happening with the American forces?

I hope this book does get published - we need to know the truth about what the military does when it believes it is invincible and "unobserved".