And once again, we descend into a leadership, command and management debacle. The RAF, tbh the whole UK Armed Forces, has had a woeful record of poor leadership at flag officer level for a number of decades now and the rot has set it. We seem to have drifted from our core role that seems to have become implied rather than clearly articulated, to fight and win the Nation’s wars when called upon to do so. As I reflect upon my own meagre contribution I fear history will not be kind to us for our results post 1990; the world is neither safer nor more secure and yet we continue to salami slice what little we have left from the Front Line across all the Services. Don’t get me going on ‘life after the Binbrook model…’