The entire charade of Government/MoD has been "make the threat meet the budget" since the end of the Cold War, but external contractorisation and the NAO means that the mechanisms are now revealing it as such.
Personally, I think the UK should go the whole hog - let's contractorise the front line.
Exactly how effective is it to train and arm Iraqis who run away when IS turns up, leaving IS to collect said arms (and recruit a few of the trainees)?
Do me a cost-benefit analysis of lobbing PGMs at pick-up trucks from jets that cost hundreds of millions.
Can I see an Excel chart of campaigns won in the last 15 years please, Sales? Oh, that's zero is it? And your Target was....?