... or like the poor souls in The Ivory Tower, trying their hardest to swim against the stream, and balance the requirements of the "hear and now (the war)" against the demands of the future (a war).
And the calls for the F3 to be disbanded are not helped by the "just wait for the Falklands to kick off again" brigade - withdraw them now and you could send the wrong message ....
Does raise an interesting question - if you were to disband/suspend any capability not directly supporting current ops what would you lose? AWACS? Challenger? Rapier? Kings Horse Troop? Red Arrows? BBMF? All of which would probably save the square root of very little!