There seems to be two types of posters here - those who are shocked by what has happened and those who are not surprised. The former are no longer serving; the latter are. Putting aside the issues surrounding cheese sandwiches, I wonder how long it will be that the accumulated risk of various change programmes (PAYD, leaning JPA, guarding etc etc) will lead to mission failure over ISIS territory? This aspect was reviewed at considerable length in the Capability health Check of 2008 in response to Haddon-Cave....what has happened since to allow this situation to develop?