The first time I heard "more with less" was around 2005, incidentally this was just a few years after the ops/mx split, its been downhill ever since. In my corner of the AF, the powers that be cut fighter production to almost nothing around 2008 which ended up dramatically increasing work load in the fighter squadrons and lowering quality of life. Choose your reasons why, but for the moment the grass is greener on the other side, it used to just be grass. These swings are not new, and will happen again.