RUSI Speech - 19th Sep 2006
Speech by Des Browne MP, Secretary of State for Defence:
My priority, for now, is to make sure our people engaged in this most vital and difficult of tasks, have the support they need and the support deserve. I have already said that I am expending every effort with our allies to see that our people are not left exposed in this fight. I am expending every effort too to ensure they get the equipment they need, even if that means rebalancing some of the overall effort in Defence towards the here and now, rather than the possible challenges of tomorrow. Across Government I am urging us to be imaginative in our approach and not let habit, or bureaucracy, constrain the solutions we need on the ground.
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Ab...9thSep2006.htm
Perhaps what we are seeing with fixed wing Naval aviation is the manifestation of the Browne solution to everything.