The US Navy is Sleepwalking into Defeat - CDR Salamander

This last quarter century’s process has a record of consistently producing sub-optimal performance.

This isn’t just my opinion. 

• Look at everything from how we manage our people using a Cold War framework, to program management that cannot design a laudable warship or a fit-for-purpose airwing, to the shambolic results of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and the Horn of Africa.
• The results speak for themselves.

...we have to look at the potential conflict that presents the greatest danger to our nation’s power, economy, and that of our allies—the threat that would, if it has its way, change the international order in ways that will reverse centuries of progress.

• That challenge is in the Pacific. 

To fight and win, there is one simple thing that is common to all wars, but in the Pacific is an order of magnitude greater, because of time, distance, and geography for a sea power coming from the other side of the planet to fight: logistics...