Specific visitor Chris Dougherty joins Chris and Melanie to discuss his modern War on the Rocks write-up, “Gradually and then Instantly: Outlining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy.” Dougherty notes that “a series of decisions (and indecisions) a long time in the producing have backed the Navy into a spending budget and power-planning corner,” and he describes the competing interests that push different (and seldom complementary) drive requirements. What conclusions are most required in get to get the Navy again on the right monitor? And what useful measures can be taken now to shut the hole among the several demands on the Navy and the Navy’s ability to satisfy people needs? Chris Preble is mad at individuals who spread destructive misinformation, Melanie laments the decrease of human civilization as mirrored in the Associated Press’ improper-headed final decision about the plural possessive, and Chris Dougherty gripes about individuals who gripe about the 2018 Countrywide Protection System (but do not know what they’re speaking about). Shoutouts for the Cuban people today, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Wally Funk, and Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Maritime Corps.
Hyperlinks
- Christopher Dougherty, “Gradually and then Suddenly: Describing the Navy’s Strategic Individual bankruptcy,” War on the Rocks, June 30, 2021
- Andrew Restuccia and Sarah E. Needleman, “Biden’s Facebook Assault Followed Months of Frustration Inside White Dwelling,” Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2021
- Colleen Sinclair, “10 strategies to place on the net misinformation,” The Discussion, March 27, 2020 (Current September 17, 2020)
- Elaine Luria, “Look to the 1980s to Advise the Fleet of Right now,” War on the Rocks, June 14, 2021
- Claude Berube, Twitter, July 18, 2021
- Blake Herzinger, “The Spending plan and Fleet that May Have Been,” War on the Rocks, June 10, 2021
- Jack Reed and Jim Inhofe, “To Provide and Retain a Navy: Being familiar with the Business of Navy Shipbuilding,” Proceedings, July 2021
- Caitlyn O’Kane, “Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson Have Now Both equally Long gone to Area. Here’s the Distinction in Their Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic Flights,” July 20, 2021, CBS News
Image: U.S. Navy (Photo by Mass Conversation Spc. 3rd Class Daniel Serianni)