Don't get me wrong, Broon was a disaster for the UK, never mind for defence, but defence is the business of this forum, and to my mind it will always be seriously compromised unless and until there be total reform of the MOD.
The usual response, ie relabeling it and all its departments, will produce the usual outcome, ie more of the same.
It needs one driven and dedicated individual, the yang to Mountbatten's yin, to overturn the tables of this temple of corrupt one sided exchange. Not yet another inquiry armed from the outset with its findings, nor a committee, just one person in the forceful traditions of Peel, Trenchard, or Bevan to put the defence of the realm as the sole purpose of the reform of this monstrous carbuncle.
If it isn't done soon, the cut and slash of the inter war years will be as a land of plenty by comparison. Time for the defence of our nation to be addressed by the UK Government before it is addressed by that of others, to our very great detriment.