SAM
Sometimes people get excited about their own importance in the whole scheme of things.
This happens most regularly to those promoted beyond their capabilities in my experience.
read this
http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/32E5E...10_22mar03.pdf
Your quote "The algorithms were cocked up in GW1 resulting in an RAF Tornado loss" rather fails to understand basic causality and the importance of one link in a very long and depressing chain.