Listening to James Arbuthnot on R4 this morning what struck me most was that it wasn't until CDS was questioned back in March by the Committee that they started to have 'doubts'. This in spite of other headline grabbing failures such as that from the MP/TA soldier a couple of years ago.
I suspect that the hoary old process of assuring your boss that you can do your job with no resources is what has got us to where we are. At least CDS was upfront enough to use a euphimism (I think he said 'gravely concerned') that the politicos understood to mean 'we are going the wrong way down a certain body of water without adequate means of navigation or propulsion'.
Still, Drayson implying we are increasing the size of the C17 fleet by purchasing what is already in use is a criminal excess of spin. One can only hope that his deity (if he has one) is a vengeful one and he will suffer in his own personal hell along with the rest of this 'government' for his economical truths.