Some might question whether it might have been better had the starred-officers made their comments when serving - before they got their gongs and knighthoods etc?
I am afraid, I don't know but they are only human and I am very glad they are doing so now.
Nonetheless, perhaps this will encourage those in-post at present to do likewise - and their subordinates to follow suit.
Maybe then we can start to rid our Services of the self-serving attitudes and behaviour exhibited by a number of the prehistoric remnants of a peace-time military, who have not faced real combat. Even those who, from the comfort of an ops room, have had to commit people to their death are affected by the enormity and futility of war.
Such people are not afraid to ask questions and to tell the emperor that his new clothes are a figment of his imagination. (A naked Broon does not bear thinking about!)
More of the same please from higher-level dissenters.
