You submit your work to the MOD to be vetted for security purposes, what type of thing are they worried about?

You submit your work to the MOD to be vetted for security purposes, what type of thing are they worried about?

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Yes. The MOD want to look at it. The whole basis of the MOD is they want to just check that there's nothing that affects national security. But sometimes that ranges from the really obscure to where they don't like using a certain make of car during an operation. So basically what happens is they look at the manuscript and they say "well what we'd like to do is cut from chapter 1 line to chapter 86, you know, most of the book." Then what happens is that there's a negotiation. But basically if they explain and tell us what the problem is well I'll take it out and I'll change it. You know it's a thriller, it's not affecting peoples lives.