That is PRECISELY what holds the RAF back: staff work.
Regulated thinking, a failure to look beyond the next posting or career move.
Too difficult to implement? 9 months, I can have 10 widebodies transporting your troops and freight around the world - easy.
At a push, 6.
I used to be reflexely suspicious of officers who claimed to 'staff' something, as opposed to 'work on it', as well as SNCOs who referred to themselves as 'senior NCOs' rather than 'Sneks' - as an unscientific rule of thumb it proved to be surprisingly good w@nker AEW.