Avtur - perhaps CDS hasn't quite done what the Torygraph (and others) say he has?
He was speaking at the annual set-piece lecture for the Changing Character of War Programme at Oxford. What has probably happened is that he's stood up and given a frank analysis of things in a section of his speech which could be subtitled 'Challenges facing the Chief of Defence Staff today'. He's mentioned the issue of political will to send forces to do things running into the difficulty of forces being cut. He's noted that there are shortages in assets for the RN (and probably the army and RAF too, but not reported). He's noted the problem that the media bay for the decimation of the senior levels of all three services without ever asking what the implications of such reductions might be in terms of defence diplomacy, alliance/coalition ops, etc, etc.
And then he's moved on to other issues, probably with the same straight-forward generally jargon-less approach that he seems to have.
Fast forward a week, and someone in the media learns of the speech (there's no online transcript or video content as far as I can ascertain) and it then gets spun as 'CDS slams/criticises * Goverment defence policy' (* = delete as appropriate to tabloid/broadsheet format)...