Do we learn nothing? Our handling of the media during the Falklands was dreadful - and acknowledged. At Staff College, we were taught how to work with the media and ran (CPX) exercises where real media personnel came and conducted interviews on our conduct of the exercise - it benefited us and them to understand each other and talk through the hypothetical situations afterwards. We saw the benefit of working with them and, if you did not bullsh1t them, they would also realise that there were wider interests than sales volume. Michael Yon is one of the most respected journalists I have heard of and everything he reports shows our guys to be excellent soldiers. If he says we don't have enough helicopters, he is not revealing a state secret - everyone is saying that. I understand the frustration evident in this outburst from Michael Yon and would suggest that the "British Major" be first in line for consideration of any redundancies - or just plain fired!