BV, I'm not saying that the RAF should still have as many aircraft, pilots and aerodromes as was the case 60 or even 35 years ago.
But I do question the massive reduction in numbers and the creeping cancer of MFTS contractorisation of the last 15 or so years.
Hopefully there won't be, but should there ever be a surge requirement for more front line pilots, the RAF simply won't have the capacity to meet it as it once could. So few aerodromes, very few pilots on ground tours who could be spared ( a mate in the Air Box was tasked to research that before he retired - there just aren't people hidden away as there used to be) and very few training aircraft...