As a civvy taxpayer this whole episode depresses me.
We need to spend money on defence, more than on many of the harebrained schemes that this, and to be honest many previous, governments seem so wedded to. People need to wake up.
In today's global security environment can anybody tell me that the USA are also seeing a "shift away from emphasis on numbers of platforms and people" and implementing similar "improvements to military capabilities".
I doubt it.