How can a country with a population of only 10 million people crew a thousand combat aircraft, when we a country of approx 70 million struggle to crew 200?
I guess if France was routinely firing rockets at London and sending armed men across the Channel to kill civilians in Kent then we would commit more resources to defence. The West has become soft and complacent in its regard to that oft quoted ‘first priority of government’, arguably so too had Israel who were content to hide behind their fence, the difference being that when the inevitable attack came they are in a position to do something about it. The UK maintains a fig leaf of capability whilst having given away much of our ammunition to Ukraine.
Fortunately we don’t currently face an obvious assailant to our country (but we have several overseas territories at potentially greater threat…) except perhaps a missile threat from Russia in which case we can do our bit to annihilate the globe in a nuclear war.