Solving the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy – War on the Rocks

Special guest Chris Dougherty joins Chris and Melanie to discuss his recent War on the Rocks article, Gradually and then Suddenly: Explaining the Navys Strategic Bankruptcy. Dougherty notes that a series of decisions (and indecisions) decades in the making have backed the Navy into a budget and force-planning corner, and he describes the competing interests that drive different (and rarely complementary) force requirements. What decisions are most needed in order to get the Navy back on the right track? And what practical steps can be taken now to close the gap between the many demands on the Navy and the Navys capacity to meet those demands? Chris Preble is mad at people who spread malicious misinformation, Melanie laments the decline of human civilization as reflected in the Associated Press wrong-headed decision about the plural possessive, and Chris Dougherty gripes about people who gripe about the 2018 National Defense Strategy (but dont know what theyre talking about). Shoutouts for the Cuban people, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Wally Funk, and Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps.

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Solving the Navy's Strategic Bankruptcy - War on the Rocks