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Sadly, the same questions can be applied to the grounding of the Nimrod fleet. At least the Tornado was available to cover most if not all the Harrier mission capability. However nothing was available to cover the Nimrod mission. Some senior officers have a lot to answer for but as is usual no one at that level is ever held accountable for their decisions.
At that level of change the decisions are political, not military. The VSO's can and do make the military case, but Treasury, Defence and Cabinet Office ministers make the choices and the PM then, usually, agrees.
Fighting the capabilityor personnel corner too hard as a VSO is merely a route to unemployment.
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