I would think the military have taken a carefully calculated gamble, and I believe he will be assigned a desk job. As far as I can work out, insurgents are throwing pretty much everything they can at everyone anyway. The fact that he threatened to resign his commission if he wasn’t allowed to go shows he doesn’t want to be treated as a “special” case, which will go in his favour. I would think as many of his fellow soldiers would be disgruntled had he been given special treatment, and not allowed to go. In spite of that, an army’s leaders … generals, politicians will always be targets, and Kings have always fought alongside their soldiers. What’s so different about a royal son?
