Just an idle thought.
What could you buy instead of Dii(f)?
Two aircraft carriers?
44 Cruise ships?
What else?
Network Enabled Capability - no network ever killed anybody unless they were strangled in red tape.
No sonofabitch every won a war pounding at his laptop. He won the war by killing the other sonofabitch that had his head in his computer (with apologies to George S P)
We managed to win a war in the Far East with about 100,000 personnel (I think it was that many) with very few casualties on either side and with b*gger all comms - the occasional telephone call over 300 miles and signals as the usual media. UK newspapers were 5 days late and there was no TV. If we had radio we didn't get the world service, but we didn't have radios anyway.
One of our allies has been down the technology route but you can't win wars without feet on the ground. I say feet as some enemy do not have boots. Let's pull the plug and save the money.