Showing posts with label Navy at War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Navy at War. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

The Manning Shortfall Bow Wave is Only Starting

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It appears that the recruiting and retention challenges are breaking above the ambient noise at the start of 2QFY23. We go through these cyc...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

No Sense of Urgency to Act on What is Waiting West of Wake

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The greatest threat to security in the Western Pacific is not the rise of China, certainly isn't the moribund Russians - or even a combi...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Where Does Ryan Mays go to Get His Name and Life Back?

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A sad chapter in the loss over two years ago of the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) has finally come to a close. With the loss of an almost fre...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Unfunded Priorities ... or a Deeper Story?

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I may have to add Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) to my list of navalist leaders of merit on The Hill. My first reaction was to be mad that I had not...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

The Potomac Flotilla's Potemkin

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Just take a moment to consider the mass of senior leadership present inside a commute distance of DC. The amount of money they have access t...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Are our Intellectual Actions Aligned with our Security Challenges?

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That is, of course, a subject question. However, there are objective facts that stand independent of that subjectivity. Where you are in tim...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Culture is Upstream of Everything

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) along with Congressmen Jim Banks (R-IN), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) commissioned a study by Li...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021

To win the 72-Month or 72-Week, and not the 72-Hour War...

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 ...we have better start planning to fight the marathon. Now that we are contested at sea, we are setting ourselves up to be unable to retur...
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

I Have Not Come to Bury DTS, but to Yell at it

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Since I left active duty I really have not had all that much time to yell at DTS. I mostly just laugh at it from a distance as it was no lon...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Want to Benchmark Tech Best Practices?

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Our Navy has a problem, or a series of problems, and everyone knows it. It is a problem of long standing that manifests itself in a variety ...