Damn I typed a nice long reply, clicked submit and got a server busy message
As someone who's read quite a few of these posts now it would seem that your best move would be to read more about what the MOD, RAF and NATO do than exactly how they do it. Try reading the MOD web site especially the news section, read the RAF web site, learn where they are, why they're there, what aircraft they have, what the aircraft do, read the NATO web site especially the bits about just what they do this day and age, the news bits, why Eastern European countries are being allowed to join and then global news in general, how has the world changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, what new challenges are there now etc?
Learn speed, distance and time maths inside out, practice route planning - getting from A to B but with travel constraints etc.