I'm with GBZ on this one....
I fear that Col Collins is not the best man to pontificate on Air Operations....
Perhaps he'd like it if next time the BBC or Sky needed an opinion on Infantry operations, a retired pilot was wheeled out?
Now I'm sure that it's not all of his own doing, and the press shilling has a lot to do with this, but what happened to discretion? Is Mr Collins' bank account so dry that a polite "I'm not best qualified to talk on that subject" is out of the question?