Frequent changes among prime ministers, cabinet ministers, and senior service officers can interrupt a defence programme's direction. Each successor brings preferred solutions, moving requirements and forcing redevelopment. Repeated interwar premierships illustrate greater continuity among decision makers despite changes of government. Rebuilding a kitchen whenever its owner dislikes the result supplies an analogy for changing an existing plan. The criticism concerns spending public money on repeated redesigns without maintaining a coherent programme.
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Leadership turnover and repeated changes to defence plans
Successive leaders' preferred solutions can repeatedly change requirements and force procurement work to be redone.