'We have too few aircraft, too few pilots and too much tasking' - didn't I recall the same scenario around this time 74 years ago?
Politicians are amateurs. Despite their first-class degrees in useless subjects and their supposedly mighty intellects, they learn nothing except how to pander to popularism. Their ability to look into the future, especially where military spending and capability is concerned, doesn't even make it to the end of their smug noses.
When the guano does hit the fan out they crawl out in an attempt to recover a situation of their own making. The 'political class' of the past 2 decades has reduced our Armed Forces to 2nd division levels of capability yet 'they' still have aspirations, nay delusions, of the Premier League. To extend the analogy, money has to be spent not only to get into the Premier League but, more pertinently, has to be spent to stay there and that is where we, as a nation, have been failed.
Amateurs the lot of them and not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier......or a pilot or nav or 'grunt' or 'bootneck'.
