"Earlier this week, Dr Mike Martin resigned his position as a Territorial Army Captain to enable him to publish An Intimate War, his own heavily critical account of British operations in Helmand.
Mr Hill told The Independent: “The fact that Dr Martin has had to resign in order to go public with his research does not surprise me in the least. Given that he waited for about a year without MoD feedback, I feel I’ve made the right decision in leaving now.”
Mr Hill, who kept a diary throughout his tour of Afghanistan in summer 2011 and is now a BBC broadcast journalist in Nottingham, said: “My job was to promote the war and make it look like things are under control and getting better."
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