The RAF will shrink to it's smallest size in history
.....The immediate post-war years saw a scaling down of the RAF, from 188 operational squadrons and 291,000 officers and men in 1918 to 12 squadrons and 31,500 officers and men in 1920.....
I think the Air Staff should read up on
how Trenchard handled the situation.
.....The fight for survival as an independent air arm was a real one and was waged largely in government committee rooms, in Parliament and in the press. Fortunately for the future of British air power and the RAF, the time brought forth the man - or more precisely, 2 men: Winston Churchill, as Minister for War and Air, and Trenchard, as Chief of the Air Staff.....