Originally Posted by
ORAC
"What really matters is production."
Recognising this, MoD had a mandatory Defence Standard to facilitate it.
Its use was forbidden (but still mandated) from 1991, following the move in April 1990 from 'just in time' to 'not in time', whereby replenishment would not commence until there were outstanding demands.
As part of this, and to hasten the run down of stocks, serviceable spares and War Reserves were scrapped.
I wonder if the US ever graduated to not in time? That AMSO policy took a special kind of incompetence.