Nah - he's just over articulating the traditional "the answer is two chinooks" question.....
He's got no choice; budgets are not going to increase in real terms for a long time and people are expensive. More UAS (HALE/MALE), more PFI with only enough organic eng support for deployed Ops by the sound of it. Hard to do in practise unless we demand the enemy define a FLET in future conflicts so we know where the COCO aircraft stop....ACAS mentioned looking at a UAS solution as part of any reborn MPA capability at the UAS conference on Monday at Excel.