The RAF has become an organisation populated by careerist individuals to concerned with promotion to always do the right thing.
Having been involved with an initiative in maintenance flight safety, I have been astonished by the response. This has varied between cynicism and distrust to a complete inability to comprehend how big a cultural change is required to improve. The 'learned helplessness' engendered by successive failures in leadership makes what is a difficult task, even harder.
Leaders of men with some bottle & the ability to say we ‘Can’t do it’ are required.