Wokka has come up with a pretty good list there, but I'm pretty sure the big difference between the RAF in 1942 and now is that in 1942 the majority of us would have had some leave / time off ops at some point and there would have been the assets available to get the job done. Can you imagine what Bomber Harris would have said as he looked at the tote board and realised his 1000 bomber raid was down to a couple of hundred and a few trg ac as the rest were in depth or that the IPT wouldn't authorise 617 to use Barnes Wallis' new bomb because it didn't mean the RTS???
But as for Noo Lab breaking the armed forces to meet their tasking, what do they plan on doing when they have broken us and we are no longer capable of carrying out their tasking? I think the American administration have realised that Tony's / Gordo's commitment to actually giving us the resources to do the job properly is very very thin and that we are becoming as much as a miitary liability as some of our European partners.
And just out of interest .... exactly what would an implosion of the Armed Forces look like? It's not as if we can call a lightening strike or suddenly down tools and not fight the Taleban. We refuse to do secondary duties ... so what they'll say? We can't just all walk out of the gate and not come back - just what would an imposion look like?