Why not just call it "RAF HQ"?
I can see where this wider transition of the armed forces is rapidly leading. Naming the new RAF organisation "Air Command" falls into line with the changes to "HQ Fleet" and "Land Command". Those names clearly signify that they will be just 3 Commands within a single entity known as the British Armed Forces - or should we call it the British Defence Force?
I think the real losers here will be the Chiefs of Staff. All the time they had multiple TLB holders working for them, they seemed to have a reason for their existence. However, if they each have only one TLB holder in future, and at the same rank as well, their reason for existence seems a bit dubious.
CDS - 4*
CAS - 4*
C-in-C Air - 4*
All we now need to do is change the colour of our uniforms so that they all match, and we really will have a single defence force. However, I'm sure we won't actually do that as it would cost too much money, but it would certainly stop all the stupid bit(hing about absorbing one Service into another.
