Those articles refer to the operation of military aircraft, not to the licensing of civil pilots.
Methinks thou doth protest too much....
Can we now just let the guys and gals who have been left to make this work get on with their job with our support, it will be hard enough as it is and if it does fail the only real loser will be the RAF/AAC/FAA...
Nope, when the nonsense of MFTS fails, as ultimately it surely must, I suspect that there will be a strong sense of Schadenfreude amongst those to whom officialdom failed to listen all those years ago.