When I have been asked to review an academic paper (before my much cherished retirement from such tedious duties) I would look first at the aim.
Exploration is not an aim. Finding something is the purpose.
The intent of this paper is to cause discord. Having watched Sharky Ward perform in a Royal Air Force officer's mess many years ago, on numerous occasions, I realised that what I had first assumed to be a comic routine was a genuine display of hatred for the Royal Air Force.
Sadly, in my professional life after leaving the Royal Air Force, I encountered a good many Royal Navy officers who seemed to share Sharky's obsessive and nasty attitudes.
Frankly, if VSOs in any service continue to allow bandwidth commensurate with Commander rank to those who spurt such dissonant drivel, joint service activities will continue to be challenging rather than synergistic.
Certainly, I never encountered any British Army or Royal Air Force officers who were quite so childish. Ignore them. They won't go away!