Inteesting that, as usual, the terms "Ministers", "MoD" and "Government" are used to shift blame around. Notice that
It was announced in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review that the Government would adopt the carrier variant of the US-built F35 Joint Strike Fighter
and that
Ministers argued that the carrier variant was a more capable aircraft and that it would increase "interoperability" with other navies
which was almost certainly correct.
But then
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the MoD was reverting to the jump jet version
and the decision to change
was taken without the MoD understanding how the change could be implemented
And as things get worse it becomes very much the MoD's fault:
example of how little the MoD understood
We urge the MoD to learn the lessons
Now, none of that is necessarily incorrect, but the wording tends to give the impression that it's all gone wrong because of those faceless wonders in uniform in the big expensive building next to the Thames.