Dispersed Operaions …
Some 30 years ago my team in War Plans and Policy were looking into the subject. No idea whether any real progress has been made in UK. We looked at near off-base dispersal, decoys, camouflage, distant dispersal (Civil airfields and disused Mil) … and a whole load of other aspects including C3.. It all came down to the manpower, logistics, engineering and a host of rat-**** that makes these cute demos look great … until you start punching the numbers.
Are the days of big fixed bases over? Certainly CSTOL offers options, but most NATO air forces are, I suspect, decades behind where certain Nordic nations have been for ages.