A senior RAF officer said last night: “The Army is deflecting its own inefficiencies by placing the spotlight on another service. The whole situation has become a knife fight in a phone box, with each service trying to gouge chunks out of the other while protecting itself.
Why do people pay any attention to dim-witted, pig $hit thick, sandaholic pongo Generals? They'll probably have bugger all to do, apart from ponce about on horseback in London, once their current North West Frontier military adventure ends - so any long term view from their alleged General Staff (or whatever the latest descriptor is) should be firmly ignored.
The army which actually does the fighting on the ground needs all the support it can get. Internecine wrangling between purple star officers is pointless, divisive and ultimately destructive.