The corrosive effect of the bean-counters
Absolutely, it's the beancounters again - the B***ards. Who in their right mind would ever want to match the resources available to the task in hand to make sure you could actually achieve it? - well, apart from the NHS, but there again they are largely oblivious to the resources they consume.
How would that work in the cockpit? You could try ignoring the amount of fuel you had left in your tanks when presented with a new task, or prosecute an attack against a target, despite having no ordnance left. What fun!
But no, you you are right. Those sodding beancounters should be stopped from making the decisions on capability...no, wait, that's politicians. OK, they should be stopped from advising politicians to scrap capability in order to save money, No, wait again... that's the Service Chiefs. Somebody should educate them that delaying delivery actually costs more money...no, my bad...Service Chiefs again. Anyway, utter w*nkers, every one of them.