While agreeing with you about Fat Gordon and his bunch of grasping acolytes, there is another (less obvious) source of the pain. The MoD centre organisation has become conditioned to the use of a process (DPAs, SAG scenarios etc) which almost inevitably results in force structure cuts (although they disguise it as cost-effective capability). Almost every single assumption used in town (and this goes back many years) assumes that as there is no discernable major power threat to the UK, we can do more and more in coalitions and therefore reduce our "unaffordable" systems / forces, which is actually CS-speak for hold the defence budget constant, reduce in real terms.....
Although the RR threat is acknowledged it is somehow overlooked / ignored along the lines of "oh we'll have plenty of warning to/regenerate / reconstitute etc". Unfortunately, the decisions being made now across all three services (and industry for that matter) are based on these assumptions and contrary to CS perceptions are irrevocable.
I know these sorts of assumptions have precedent (5:5:3 ratio of the Washington treaty etc), but I don't believe there was ever the implicit assumption that defence expenditure could continue to decline without correction.
This is not intended as a slight on the CS guys actually supporting the front-line - it's the ones in town doing the Treasury's bidding we need to worry about.