Anyone can land on a runway 1 mile long that stays in the same place and doesn't bounce around.
But some of us relish a challenge.
16 Blades. Please tell me what the entire Crab force brought to Telic that the Yanks could not have done better themselves? To my mind probably Airborne refueling. And now ask yourself what they would have done without the Junglies at Al Faw (when they grounded their entire Sea Knight force on night one because they couldn't operated in the bad conditions, or what they would do about the Iraqi navy which was destroyed in GW1 by a Lynx because they didn't have suitable kit, or who they would use to do the Bagger job.
The difference between the RAF and FAA, is that we bring something to the party, even when operating with the Yanks