Sergeant Alexander Blackman’s imminent release from prison marks the end of a shameful paragraph in the history of our military, our government and our legal system. The Military Covenant is clearly dead and buried, and troops sent to fight in future wars must know that if Sergeant Blackman’s victory over the senior officers, the politicians and the lawyers sent to lie for them in court – over matters of fact and by omission – looked unlikely, then the odds against anyone else getting a fair shake are now infinitely bad.
Why? Because there’s nothing as vindictive as a system which got it wrong and was humiliated by proof that yes, it did get things very badly wrong.
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