The report said it would be "naive" to view the case as the isolated behaviour of a "rogue celebrity" - but the "context of the 1960s and 1970s" needs to be recognised.
Governments and activists view this dilemma as caused by drug companies' elevating profits over people, but the drugmakers call this viewnaive, saying that it ignores the cost of developing drugs and puts the onus on shareholders to supply poor countries.
In order to conform to such an irresponsibly naive, if not Luddite, view, the Air Force has responded to the veto by rewriting its doctrines, mission requirements and budget requests to delete references to the need for such capabilities.