The advantages of the present I'd say is almost purely in terms of accuracy over anything pre-SDSR. There has been pure reduction the R.A.F. since 24th October 2010. Therefore, I'd argue that the mass of the R.A.F. with Harriers, an extra two GR4 squadrons, Nimrods and all, was a superior one to now. The one we had prior to the Hoon cost review "Delivering Security in a changing world" or whatever cobbled together slogon was used, was stronger still. Between then and SDSR, assets were pruned away in a seemingly piece-meal fashion. Most of the F3 Force disappeared without any kind of publicly announced review of any kind.
I suspect it was all to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan!?!
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