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?
Another bit of realpolitik from you, wuh. To answer your question, rhetorical or not, the question isn't about doing good but of doing right. When one knows what is being done is wrong, and God knows those who inhabit the corridors of the "Strategic Headquarters" (funny I thought it to be a government ministry) should know that in spades, there is a moral dilemma to be faced. A few, a very few, face up to that challenge and speak out. We are honoured to have such a person posting on this very forum, when his health allows. To quote you again,
Life in the Big House is infinity more complex than it appears to those on the outside.
To misquote you; Life in the real world is infinitely less complex than it appears to those on the outside. It is all about right and wrong.