Interesting that no one in the media has picked up on the implications of applying the thinking of the new CGS to the other services. He gave a speech last week at Chatham House, which was woefully under-reported, but summarised by Richard North on:
http://defenceoftherealm.***********...balancing.html
He was basically implying that the Army needed to be "rebalanced" to cope with a shift in threat away from inter-state warfare. If the Army is going to move in that direction, it makes the Typhoon fleet look even more of an extravagance.