"Interesting" is an... err.. interesting description of that interview, 500N. Unless things have changed A LOT since my days wearing green, I think there would have been some rather ... "interesting" comments coming from the peanut gallery in the TV rooms in every Army barracks tuned in to that interview.
Until I saw at the end of the interview that he was flogging a book, I couldn't make out what in the world he was trying to achieve by going public with what he was saying. (I can't remember the exact words, but I also found the comments he made to his troops during a memorial service for a soldier killed in Afghanistan [played during the interview] to be "unusual" - in the extreme - for a commander of troops in the field.)
Happy to be shot down in flames by currently serving members if attitudes have changed that much since my day, but I really don't think he'd have garnered too much sympathy or empathy with too many of the troops of my day with that interview.