<a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/prince-harry/" target="_blank">Prince Harry</a> has let down military personnel by <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/01/06/prince-harry-betrayed-british-army-as-kill-list-claim-riles-taliban/" target="_blank">“boasting” about the number of people he killed</a> in Afghanistan, British Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace said on Thursday. He said success in the armed forces was not measured by “who can shoot the most”. Mr Wallace, a former captain in the Scots Guards, criticised Harry, Duke of Sussex, over <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/01/10/what-has-prince-harry-said-in-his-book-27-new-claims-made-in-spare/" target="_blank">sections of his memoir, <i>Spare</i></a><i>, </i>that revealed <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/01/11/prince-harry-denies-boasting-about-killing-taliban-in-spare/" target="_blank">details of his tours of duty</a> in Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging interview on LBC, Mr Wallace also <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2023/02/23/britain-says-ukraine-war-could-last-another-year/" target="_blank">said that the war in Ukraine could last another year</a> and that east European Nato countries may be the first to supply Ukraine with fighters jets. “The armed forces is not about a tally,” Mr Wallace said. “I frankly think boasting about tallies or talking about tallies … distorts the fact that the army is a team game.” He said the military is a “team enterprise” and each person in combat was supported by “hundreds of people behind them”. “If you start talking about who did what, what you are actually doing is letting down all those other people, because you’re not a better person because you did and they didn’t,” he added. Mr Wallace said each military veteran must “make their own choices about what they want to talk about”. He also said a person’s time in the armed forces was not measured by “who can shoot the most or who doesn’t shoot the most”. The Duke of Sussex’s wrote in <i>Spare </i>that he had killed 25 Taliban soldiers. In <i>Spare </i>he described how the gunship’s nose camera recorded missions, which included the Taliban killings. He regarded the insurgents as “chess pieces removed from the board” and said the army trained him to think it was not possible to kill someone “if you see them as a person”. Prince Harry wrote that most soldiers don't know exactly how many kills they have to their credit. “Under battle conditions, you often fire indiscriminately,” he says. But “in the era of Apaches and laptops”, he was able to say “exactly how many enemy combatants I had killed. And it seemed to me essential not to be afraid of that number. “So my number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me.” He was also criticised for the passages when <i>Spare </i>first went on sale. Senior officers told <i>The National</i> that Prince Harry “betrayed the fighting ethos” of the British Army. “Bragging about how many enemy soldiers you can have killed is simply not what British soldiers do,” a senior officer told <i>The National</i>. Tory MP Tobias Ellwood suggested that the Duke of Sussex’s admission could create security risks for the Invictus Games, founded and promoted by Prince Harry. Mr Ellwood, a senior backbencher and chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the revelation in Harry’s memoir was “ill-advised”.