Conspiracy?
Whilst I accept from reading these threads that there appears to be a number of issues of morale and supply (amongst other gripes) in RAF, a leap of faith is needed to link the production of AP3003 with the much-heralded voluntary redundancy programme and the unavailability of shoes (a DLO/DCTA issue perhaps?). This is, indeed, a conspiracy of Machiavallian proportions.
Would you prefer that the RAF did not write and publicise its history and thoughts on Air Power? But then, my comments are probably invalid, as I am only a blinkered observer sitting in an ivory tower on the Cam...