Trouble is, while it looks good for PROGO at the minute, the thinking behind it will lead to even more cuts. Initially the MoD civil service scrutineers in Resource & Plans will use the logic to reduce future buys of ships where long-range deployments and directed tasks often drive total numbers of ships required (surprise surprise). Later, during yet another review of teeth to tail etc, some bright spark will point out that there are a very large number of shore posts for the number of ships we have and will therefore try and cut personnel numbers again. Vicious circle, recipe for extinction.