It's sort of funny... Until you've seen the power of the US military all lined up you really don't realize how puny, (in terms of equipment), the British military really is. On my first tour to Belize in 1985 we had the CAS on the VC-10 and we were dropping him at McDill AFB near Tampa, Florida. After landing we taxied past rows of F-16's four deep... They seemed to go on forever... There were literally hundreds of them... I'm willing to bet that there were more F-16's there on McDill than the RAF had aircraft at the time. Someone said they belonged to an Air National Guard Unit, whether or not that's true is debatable but to be honest it wouldn't surprise me.
So there's no surprises really when the US look at British forces at current levels and are shocked at the small size and inadequate equipment.