How would the new Duty Holder Concept be applied in cases like this ?. Would the trail of causation reach back through the civil service to the politicians ? Realist that I am I do not believe so. Yet commanders in the field can only work with the resources they are given by those in authority to carry out the designated task.
It strikes me that the commanders will be but a human shield for those who will not be accountable under this new scheme. It is as if it were dreamed up by the ambulance chaser's union. It can only emasculate an already diluted Armed Force and make us the laughing stock of the world.
And yet Cameron is proclaiming 'his finest hour' is the billions of our taxes squandered on overseas 'aid', effectively trashing the defence budget to do so.