Sun,
No money.
Therefore all we can afford is beer money kit, but we have a Defence Sector that demand Petrus level investment and VSOs that like to wave their metaphorical parts around in self-aggrandisement.
This thrust for the "exquisite" has hollowed out or removed balanced capability, but these high end assets allow Politicos, VSOs and Industry to blah on about "Full Spectrum", "4th largest budget" and "second to none" like delegates at the N Korean Communist party AGM.
Until we have an honest policy led SDSR we will forever be caught between these two stools. I won't hold my breath.....