Secrecy policy over SAS operations backwards & damaging – report

 
‘Britain’s policy of not commenting on Special Forces operations is years behind other Western nations and could harm the UK’s democracy and foreign policy, a new study claims.
The study by the Sustainable Security think-tank examines the British policy of ‘no comment’ on covert military operations and compares it to the practice of other Western nations.
Author Emily Knowles warns that the long-standing UK policy is badly out of date and has the triple impact of diminishing the accountability, effectiveness and legitimacy of UK Special Forces operations.’
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