If that's the case, then the Great British Taxpayer has every right to ask the Armed Forces to stop whining to the BBC / newspapers every time they ****-up their own budget.
Actually, I think you'll find (certainly where major projects are concerned) it's the Executive / Parliament that decides how the MoD budget is to be spent. The RN & RAF case is not helped when either as in days of yore they waste millions of their discretionary spend sacking competent Servicemen & women, or nowadays waste thousands patronizing them.