Heathrow Harry - to add my own take to the intervening posts -
There will always be risk with military activity. However - I think the point generally being made here (very well IMHO) is that the deaths involved in this particular group of accidents were in part or in whole caused by or contributed to by certain improper decisions or other failings at the top – going back 25 + years. Those decisions seem to have had little to do with airworthiness, safety, honesty or fitness for purpose and much to do with cost saving, incompetence, negligence, siloing and politicking – followed up by lying, concealment and ass-covering after the probably inevitable or predictable accidents. In other words, if a proper system was in place, and it worked properly, many of those deaths might have been avoided.
LFH