All this 2025 and Future Structure dreaming is kind of pointless in view of the current financial situation.
What we need to do is get ahead of the cycle by leaping two or thread or four bounds down the road - Force 2100.
Assume future staff and bureaucrats and politicians will have the same motivated reasoning (estimate situating) skills as current and previous generations. Extrapolate the trends - eg. fewer capabilities since they'll be assumed away, less than 1-for-1 equipment replacement, increasing HQ staffs.
A possible vision for Army 2100 - tanks and artillery dropped, so no real need for infantry, so no real need for any other combat enablers. Instead, a Public Order Battalion (eg. mostly MPs) and a Public Welfare Brigade (comms, supply, transport, medical, construction engineering); the latter would be deployable for peace support abroad. Increased staffs so we have an Army Group HQ staff in each Area in case of general mobilization. Militia entirely reworked to support the Public Welfare Brigade as Labour Companies (pick & shovel) (if motorized, they can be Labour Squadrons) - no more fighting over roles and tasks and hat badges, no need for ranks above Lt or WO, much reduced training burden, equipment in line with what they can be trusted to master, matches customary contemporary employment.
Naval and air forces could undergo similar evolutions. Say, four minesweepers/gunboats on each coast, a SAR wing, and a transport wing.
Should be affordable.
