Throughout the world people know the story of the ancient city of Troy and how the inhabitants were eventually lulled into a false sense of security and accepted the gift of the wooden horse left at the city gates by the Greeks. Unknowingly it was a weapon that would lead to numerous thousands of them being killed, as once the soldiers hidden inside were released, they opened the gates for the Greek army, and no one could stop the savagery and violence that ensued.
Thousands of years later, the relevance of the Trojan Horse scenario is still ongoing today with the savagery and violence hidden in the innocuous statements coming from the Ministry of Defence.
Ministry of Defence Statement
BBC CEEFAX 24.07.2012
Returning soldiers admit violence
One in eight soldiers have attacked someone coming home from combat deployment, research suggests. Ministry of Defence – funded researchers surveys 13,000 Army personnel and say they found a link between combat and trauma and violent behaviour – often towards their partners. Former head of the Army General Richard Dannatt warned a cultural change is needed within the forces.
The Ministry of Defence said: ‘It had measures to manage violence.’
Kings College Statement
BBC CEEFAX 15.03.2013
Dr Deidre MacManus
Soldiers returning from combat are more likely to commit violent crime than the rest of the population. 53% of troops who served in war/conflicts are more likely to commit violence than troops who have not served in wars/conflict.
The Ministry of Defence said: ‘There is help for those who need it.’
In March 2013, an article appeared in the medical Lancet magazine. Violent offending by UK military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan: a data linkage cohort study. Available at:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60354-2/fulltext
The cohort study was represented by professors and doctors in the fields of psychiatry and psychology – the following is a summary of their study.
Summary
Background
Violent offending by veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts is a cause for concern and there is much public debate about the proportion of ex-military personnel in the Criminal Justice System for violent offences. Although the psychological effects of conflicts are well documented, the potential legacy of violent offending has yet to be ascertained.
Methods
Details of a random sample of serving and ex serving UK military personnel were linked with the national criminal records. Those invited to the survey completed a questionnaire to assess the risk factors for violent offending, and this particular study focused on alcohol misuse, aggressive behaviour and exposure to traumatic events.
Findings
The findings were presents as a series of tables splitting violent and non violent offences by UK military personnel into various ranges, which showed an apparent strong link between all three risk factors and the proportion of offences which were violent.
Funding’s
Medical Research Council and the UK Ministry of Defence.
POSTSCRIPT
Background
Despite the fact that the Ministry of Defence are partly funding the research of these studies, it is obvious the researchers are not being provided with the relevant information of how combat troops are indoctrinated in pure raw violence prior to their service in conflicts, or more significantly how they are not receiving any deprogramming from this behavioural conditioning from this extreme enabled violence once their military service in conflicts is done.
Methods
It is fascinating to know that by looking only at their own list of risk factors, the cohort study is being fed ‘red herrings’, in that they have no idea of the ‘upped’ training in violence programmes for combat troops prior to their service in conflicts. Instead, they are having to resort to the national criminal records to try and find the reason for violent offending.
Findings
Unfortunately, these statistics are missing a vital factor, because for many veterans who have committed acts of extreme violence, including rape and murder, it is in fact the intensified training programme prior to deployment in conflicts that can be identified as the most likely cause. This should clearly have been included in the study questionnaire, and I am sure that it would have made a dramatic difference to their statistical tables! It is predictable that the cohort study group will not find the answer to the high numbers of combat veterans in the prison population just by looking at their own figures. Some veterans have come a hell of a long way down from their previous non-violent criminal offences prior to their enlistment in the military, and the usual explanations, such as alcohol abuse and PTSD, will in many cases prove to be of no help to anybody.
Interpretation
The fact that alcohol is mentioned in The Lancet report shows how the researchers are being misled by the Ministry of Defence. What they are overlooking is that combat veterans do not need alcohol to carry out violence, as they are already subconsciously primed for extreme violence from their ‘upped’ training in violence prior to their service in conflicts – they only need a trigger!
CONSEQUENCES
The evidence for this instilled violence in combat veterans minds is demonstrated in the ‘Break off’ publication, which gives a brutal account of how combat veterans were indoctrinated in violence prior to their service in Northern Ireland. Although the overall implanting and indoctrinating of violence in present day combat troops will probably be more sophisticated than in the early 1970s, the ultimate goal of the Ministry of Defence is still to get combat troops to kill other human beings without any hesitation or notion of fault, and this indoctrination in violence will without doubt be still operational.
If I, a combat veteran in a prison cell with no amenities whatsoever, no resources, no Internet or nothing other than my own and other combat veterans experiences in the Criminal Justice System, can endeavour to uncover the real truth behind these high numbers of combat veterans in the prison population, then it is perfectly clear that past and present Governments do not want the British public to know that being a combat soldier is like the Trojan Horse, a hidden weapon of violence simply because they were never deprogrammed. Tragically, combat veterans are paying a very high price for the fact that theirs is a vocation where there is a significant chance of serving time or even ending ones days in Her Majesty’s prisons!
Yours sincerely,
