"All the bean counting in the world doesn't help much when you need bayonets on the ground/jets above/subs below. We want to keep the people who do fightin' and bashin', and chop the people who don't"
Totally agree with you = the problem is what happens when you pull the people that aren't uber pointy sharp end and things start going wrong? The public have an image, which the media does nothing to dispell, that somehow the front line and the MOD are totally divorced from each other. In reality, if you ditch the MOD CS, and wider forces support elements, then very quickly you'd start seeing the inexorable collapse of the ability of the front line to do stuff.