and at what point do senior officers have the honesty to stand up and say that:
"No, this latest defence review was not 'policy led', it's a cynical exercise in cost cutting, and the result is that we can no longer fulfil the missions that we could before it."
Rather than all of the usual 'stretched but not over-stretched', 'yes we can, albeit at risk' nonsense that just encourages the politicians to take more and more and more?