I can but endorse flip's recommendation. Phoenix Policing the Shadows is a remarkable book indeed, and that was true enough before the new Kindle Edition was published with its all important additional chapter. That chapter alone should be required reading for every professional aviator, particularly the military ones!
Here is a record of proven suborning, of deliberate acts by VSOs in contravention of the most basic of the Military Airworthiness Regulations, resulting in a Release to Service of a knowingly unairworthy aircraft. An aircraft that had a Controller Aircraft "Switch on Only" limited release that included the entire Navigation and Communication Suite. Yet it was released into Squadron Service! What did "Switch on Only" require? That the equipment concerned was:
not to be operated in any way that places any reliance whatsoever on the proper functioning of this equipment
Added to such damning evidence is the matter of the FADECs, so riddled with bad code that Boscombe Down grounded their test aircraft and urged the RAF to do the same with their aircraft already, and so prematurely, in Squadron Service. It didn't, and ZD576 crashed taking 29 lives with it.
We may remember a darker side of the Bombing Campaign, following the somewhat tardy (by 67 years!) dedication of the BC Memorial. Aircrew who could not carry on to the end of a tour in the face of such grim odds were deemed to show "Lack of Moral Fibre", broken to the ranks and made to sweep out the areas populated by those that carried on. If there were any justice in the modern world, those hangar floors would be swept clean now by the "honourable" VSOs who betrayed their Service, their duty, and those unfortunates under their command.