The sole military inputs apparently came from the then-Chairman and Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Generals John Shalikashvili and Joseph Ralston, respectively.
And that's been the tradition of all previous chairmen - the last one was a Conservative before he became chairman he did the same thing, I never saw any political bias from him when I worked under him.
Lord Puttnam's warnings were echoed by, among others, Tory ex-cabinet minister and former Midland Independent Newspapers chairman Lord Fowler, former BBC director-general crossbencher Lord Birt, and two former Guardian Media Group chairmen, Labour peers Lord Myners and Lord Gavron.