Richard Hadfield, 2PUS, held his hand up and slowed the migration to HRMS in some areas by a few months. It started small and slowly builds up. Not perfect but it does seem to work.
So they knew that this would happen! I suppose it seemed like a persuasive argument, "Well - it's only the RAF, and look at the savings we'll make!"
How do you factor into this the cost of loss of morale, the loss of confidence in leadership etc etc..... I doubt if that was considered.....and all of this whilst we are fighting a war on 2 fronts!
Believe me, I'm always the first to embrace change, but it has to be properly planned!