Thanks Alfred,
Always appreciate your top level view.
So go on then, if all of our gumpf on this thread is pure hot air is acknowledged, what is the Defence Board's future solution looking like (and please don't say NEM and AFPS 18).
We are smaller now, we are broke and future budget cuts inevitable - I totally get it, but how does the DB intend to hang onto its experience, highly trained people and still deliver motivated, high readiness capability with a genuine Service ethos.
Lots of press releases on shiney new equipment and procurements, but how is this new kit going to operated effectively and safely? More regulation? Less mission command? Less appetite for operational risk - as long as numbers/recruiting and training pipelines are maintained - all viable options, but I fear military capability/Whole Force Concept will be reduced or end in failure.
Or is there another plan to mitigate this loss of experience over the coming years?