Interest in the Royal Tournament was revived on 19th May 2008 when the Ministry of Defence published the Report of Inquiry into: National Recognition of our Armed Forces. The report produced by Quentin Davies MP, Bill Clark OBE and Air Commodore Martin Sharp OBE MA recognised that "the Royal Tournament provided a very special opportunity for promoting the Armed Forces to the general public".
The publication of the report sparked a number of items in the press: