although many servicemen do become myopic and overly fixated on investing via their pensions for the immediate tax benefits (I certainly was), those benefits are in many instances, superficial and going fast. They might be short lived and in the long term counter productive, and could be achieved in other ways anyway
The only good thing I can see from a personal perspective is that the annual / lifetime allowance cuts have more or less forced my decision making into going down the stocks and shares ISA route to complement my pension rather than taking out a private pension on top of my AFPS pension.
However, I think that is what I once heard in a SERE brief as a 'small victory'
Gits the lot of them; frankly shooting is too good for the current shower we have cluttering up (both sides of) the Commons