God...not again! Please STOP!
ORAC if you read the article carefully, it quite clearly points out the reduction in funding for all three Services and the main thrust is that it is very easy to forget the contribution the RN has made to Herrick amongst others, against the very hard and swinging cuts over the last decade "selling off the family silver". It also states that the divisive sniping and fighting has GOT TO STOP or both the RN AND the RAF will suffer. So it is not a diatribe against the RAF.
On the subject of cuts, IMHO, the RAF has spent on Typhoon and everything around it, at the expense of AT and SH, (for good reasons at the time)that is the issue and not anything to do with RN interference. The RN in contrast, has experienced great pain in re-configuring its forces to meet a 21st century threat, the CVF are one element in that re-configuration.
Everyone in every Service is in a whole world of pain, that could be resolved by the treasury stumping up just a fraction of what was spent on the Banks. Save your bile for the government, that is where the battle lies and demonstrating to the public what each and every arm of the MOD brings to the table.
So all you armchair staff officer's out there, stop trying to yank everyones chain because there are some very high quality individuals out there, of all colours of cloth, trying to make things work for the benefit of all parts of the MOD.
P.S anyway..you read the Grauniad not the Torygraph!