Showing posts with label Antitransformationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antitransformationalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The Surface Force's Lost Generation

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Over at Defense News,  Megan Eckstein has your must read  to start your week. I hope she does not mind, but I'm going to pull a lot from...
Tuesday, January 03, 2023

Kaplan's Elegant Decline at 15

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Back in the November 2007 issue of The Atlantic , Robert D. Kaplan published an essay that still comes to mind on a regular basis a decade a...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

War, Humility, and Hubris

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Peace is the ultimate goal and is a wonderful thing – but what makes it so special is that peace is not the natural state of things for our ...
Monday, September 12, 2022

DDG(X) Becoming a CG(X) Flashback?

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Navalists should be forgiven if they have, on occasion, the mindset and habits of an abused partner.  Slightly flenching with memory, but al...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

The US Navy's Disarmed Hostility

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So, how is your week going ? The Navy wants to shed 39 ships in Fiscal Year 2023, with the first ship set to depart on Halloween. The list, ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Overspec'd, Overpriced, all Navy: Bob Work on Institutional Addictions

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Last Wednesday I had a few observations on Jerry Hendrix's latest article over at National Review,  “ The Navy’s Littoral Hubris .” Yest...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

To Build the Fleet We Need: Demand Humility & Challenge Arrogance

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Why must we continue to remind everyone who will listen of the failures of the Age of Transformationalism™? Simple; we cannot afford another...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

The CNO Has a Plan...

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The Chief of Naval Operation's 2022 Navigation Plan is out ... and besides a couple of expected errata points I'll cover at the end...