I find it curious that the tales Beauchamp told were mistakes that he would, himself, know were false based on his military training. In other words, he knows about Bradleys and run-flat tires and patrol SOPs.
He could bet the ranch that the TNR folks didn’t have a clue.
And he could be certain that the stories, once out of TNR’s preciously and morally superior ignorance of things military, be caught instantly. Because normal people, not to mention soldiers, know better.
If he’d wanted to set up TNR, what would he have done differently?
I don’t think that was what he was doing. But if he’d wanted to be more clever, he could have made the same points in ways which could not so easily be refuted. It would not have been difficult.
A puzzlement.
