AT
I support your disgust at the way our troops are now being forced to include possible legal action by their own side in their tactical threat assessment.
However, that situation is not relevant to this officer's case. Despite the on-going violence we are not now at war. He cannot plead illegality in respect of his posting or detachment order.
He has decided to pick a political fight with the system. He has chosen the wrong fight and in the process has done no-one, himself included, any favours. He has left the RAF no other choice but to prosecute him with all the attendant damage and bad publicity for us all. If publicity for his views is what he wants, why on earth didn't he resign first before going public? He is a commissioned officer in the RAF but has has not behaved appropriately. He has shown himself to be miguided and disloyal and must now face the inevitable consequences.
I'm afraid he must go.
RLE
This is not a question of blind obedience to illegal orders. And he has not picked a fight with the Government, even if that was his misguided intention. He has taken on the RAF, and for all our sakes he cannot and will not win. The government is probably laughing its collective socks off.
Tim Collins handled it correctly.