Solving the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy
Special guest Chris Dougherty joins Chris and Melanie to discuss his recent War on the Rocks article, “Gradually and then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy.” Dougherty notes that “a series of decisions (and indecisions) decades in the making have backed the Navy into a budget and force-planning corner,” and he describes the competing interests that drive different (and rarely complementary) force requirements. What decisions are most needed in order to get the Navy back on the right track? And what practical steps can be taken now to close the gap between the many demands on the Navy and the Navy’s capacity to meet those demands? Chris Preble is mad at people who spread malicious misinformation, Melanie laments the decline of human civilization as reflected in the Associated Press’ wrong-headed decision about the plural possessive, and Chris Dougherty gripes about people who gripe about the 2018 National Defense Strategy (but don’t know what they’re talking about). Shoutouts for the Cuban people, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Wally Funk, and Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps.
Links
- Christopher Dougherty, “Gradually and then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy,” War on the Rocks, June 30, 2021
- Andrew Restuccia and Sarah E. Needleman, “Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House,” Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2021
- Colleen Sinclair, “10 ways to spot online misinformation,” The Conversation, March 27, 2020 (Updated September 17, 2020)
- Elaine Luria, “Look to the 1980s to Inform the Fleet of Today,” War on the Rocks, June 14, 2021
- Claude Berube, Twitter, July 18, 2021
- Blake Herzinger, “The Budget and Fleet that Might Have Been,” War on the Rocks, June 10, 2021
- Jack Reed and Jim Inhofe, “To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Understanding the Business of Navy Shipbuilding,” Proceedings, July 2021
- Caitlyn O’Kane, “Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson Have Now Both Gone to Space. Here’s the Difference in Their Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic Flights,” July 20, 2021, CBS News
Image: U.S. Navy (Photo by Mass Communication Spc. 3rd Class Daniel Serianni)
