The most crass thing imaginable would be to spend all that treasure to end up with a military which looks pretty in peactime, has very few accidental deaths because we go nowhere near the ragged edge where accidents and excellence happen, but then loses when we actually are called upon to fight.
Hear, hear...
With the caveat that, when the possibility of a deadly systemic issue raises it's head we don't put good men and women into a possibly flawed airframe until everything has been done to rectify or mitigate the problem rather than turn away looking nervously at the ground whilst whistling tunelessly as has happened too often in the last 30 years...