No I suppose that you are all right (but apart from one, everyone that has left has not regretted it one bit - and they are not the bluffing sort).
But I can't quite see how so much Staff and frontline effort is wasted in just going round and round in circles salami slicing the forces in an effort to save money, when actually if someone had a bit of foresight and balls then shed loads could be saved.
We could look at all major projects - why even bother going through the pretense of BLUH when actually day one week one DPA could have said oi! Wastelands replace Lynx for us. The effort and the Staff work not being wasted in the 'lets pretend to look at all the options and not solutionise' and instead be focused to ensure that the whole package was in place, on time and Wastelands didn't screw the military over.
In the same breath, if it has been done for BLUH why not just stop messing around, the NAO says we need extra lift, stop chasing the CH 53 X pipe dream and do it with the Merlin/CH 47 mix that we all know will happen - but at such a slow slow pace as the treacle is waded through.
Historically, when the AH programme was being finalised (only 95 ish) why didn't some have the foresight to correctly see the numbers and force structures instead of now playing musical chairs with all of the pieces (not actually cutting anything, just moving it all around!)
And the excuse of 'well this is where we are now' is pathetic.....if we all did a 2 year tour knowing that the project or decision wasn't going to be implemented for a number of years (i.e. when in another job far removed) and therefore let decisions and actions go astray in the knowledge that you would be no where near when it actually mattered is highly incomptentent. If industry can hold people to account for the past actions (e.g. Rover Management Team) why can't we review the work of those that worked on some of these study/working groups 5 years ago and see exactly what they were doing.
We all know, some are very good and work extremely hard, but sadly the majority appear to be to frightened, scared or not bright enough to argue their case/do the work in order to allow timely and well informed decisions to be made.
Hmmh.......there has to a better way of doing it?