Being in the Eton cadets didn’t qualify David Cameron to interfere in complex military strategy. But winning a general election did. He’s the Prime Minister. He decides when and where the British army puts boots on the ground, how it puts boots on the ground, even what make of boot it puts on the ground. Generals are there to advise him on these issues and implement his orders. Hopefully David Cameron will defer to them on many of these matters. They are indeed the military professionals. But if he doesn’t defer to them, that’s tough. The Generals lump it, or they resign. What they don’t do is act with gross insubordination toward the democratically elected head of the civil power, and then go mouthing off about it to their mates.