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is in their interest to by British weapons systems
I rest my case.
Wood for trees perhaps? I think you would be surprised to see who does espouse air power these days. I was visiting a deployed HQ recently - a third of the staff were women - and not just plotters - and the intelligence officer was a Personnel Branch officer (Admin Sec in old money). Progressive reductions, sorry, efficiency measures means that there are fewer aircrew employed in ground-based jobs; most ops-related posts are filled by air space battle managers (fighter controllers).
But again, what would I know?