I doubt if disbanding the Red Arrows and the BBMF will render anything other than further diminishing returns. Looking to chop stuff or centralise the Armed Forces further feeds into the very same spiral downwards. Nothing will change any British Government's regard for the Armed Forces as an emergency fund for everything else until we're back into a situation where we are fighting a war for survival once again. Same goes for the rest of Europe. Lord Richards was supporting further cuts inadvertently the other day on Forces News, there he was calling for a reduction in the role of the individual service chiefs, we should assign more authority the Chief of the Defence Staff. His implied point being the CDS should be the sole Defence Chief. Again, such an approach just pushes everything down the spiral toward utter insignificance.
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