rupert thorneloe was very angry about this and said he thought it was the result of being gung ho. they engaged the target and kill the farmer working in his fields in the middle of the night to be avoided out of the heat of the day. he was needlessly killed and propaganda for the taliban. all these things are interconnected and is almost a direct line up ever since that probably friendly fire to that being -- perhaps a number of young men from the village. civilian casualties the moral aspect of it and the counterinsurgency counterproductive this a bit the actual individual who does it either through mistake or completely jena action or some kind of combination of the two i think it does wear on people. >> host: you kind of reconstruct where this battalion came from, its history and background of a lot of the rank-and-file and the outsourcers that frequently come from a completely different world. that is sometimes the case on the american side as well. you start the book early by explaining the importance of the falklands in terms of the cultural importance in the unit to that co