Life in the Big House is infinity more complex than it appears to those on the outside. If one of the Service chiefs speaks out of time/tune, the Service he represents can suffer. What if Sir Jock had spoken out with one view of how life is in the Services - there are approximately 196,000 views of how life in the Service - what good would it have done? It would have been ruthlessly exploited by HMT, potential recruits would have thought twice (as they have since Sir Richard has spoken out) and political trust, believe or not necessary, would have been broken. Think again?