[QUOTE=Mad_Mark;2911578]This is so much like the state the UK Military was in at the start of WWII! Continual running down of equipment, manpower, ability, etc, until suddenly - guess what - you need what you no longer have. QUOTE]
Wrong MM.
We are in a much, much worse state than at the end of the thirties. At least then we still had a navy. And we had a state of the art fighter just about in service. Unlike Eurofighter now, the Spitfire was just what the RAF needed.