Time to ‘Spin Off’ the Navy?

As we look to an uncertain future with an ever-increasing range of threats and vulnerabilities, perhaps it is time to allocate the same level of introspection to the value of keeping the Department of the Navy (DoN) inside the bureaucratic monstrosity that until recently we called the Department of Defense (DoD). -Thomas B. Modly

An alarming case in point is the DoN. 

Having been absorbed into the vast DoD structure, and subject to resource trade-offs of the overall defense enterprise, the DoN has lost its independence, and with it, its character and performance over the last several decades...

Just as Ferrari had been sub-optimized under Fiat-Chrysler, today it is reasonable to argue that the DoN as an institution has suffered the same fate in the DoD...