Prince Harry has been widely criticised for his comments about killing Taliban fighters (Image: Getty)
Levison Wood, who studied alongside the at Sandhurst and counts him as a friend, has nonetheless criticised his claim of having killed more than a dozen in his bombshell memoir .
Harry completed two tours of between 2007 and 2008 and again in 2012, and wrote in Spare that he had killed 25 “enemy combatants”.
He also came under criticism after the book’s release last January for saying he didn’t think of the Taliban as people – describing them instead as “chess pieces removed from the board”.
“I personally wouldn’t have done that,” Mr Wood – who also served in Afghanistan – , in a brutal six-word verdic.
He then joked: “But he’s sold a lot more books than me, hasn’t he?”
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Levison Wood attended Sandhurst with Prince Harry (Image: Getty)
Mr Wood, who is also a renowned explorer, author and documentary filmmaker, asaid he had recently run into Harry at a UK charity event, describing him simply as “great”.
The Duke of Sussex, who lives in California with his wife and children Prince Archie, five, and three-year0old Princess Lilibet, has previously come under fire from officials including the former Head of Royal Protection, Dai Davies.
Mr Davies slammed the Prince’s disclosure of the number of Taliban members he had killed as “totally unwise” in the documentary film Harry – The Lost Prince, which was released earlier this month.
“I was aware, as indeed he was, that the Taliban and various groups had put a price on his head,” said Mr Davies, who was also a Divisional Commander in the Metropolitan Police.
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Prince Harry made the bombshell revelation in his memoir Spare (Image: Getty)
“If you open your big mouth, as he has collectively, that book, not just on that, but given away all kinds of secrets, then it’s not surprising that some people might regard you as a potential target.”
Mr Wood also told The Times that he thought the current state of Afghanistan – which has been under Taliban control since foreign troops withdrew in 2021 – was “sad, tragic, and a complete mess”.
The Afghanistan Mercy Corps revealed that half the country’s population required humanitarian need as of August 2024, with over a third facing severe food insecurity.
Earlier this month, the condemned the Taliban for human rights violations after reports that the militant group had ordered public and private institutions to stop providing medical courses for women in the country.