Solving the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy

Special guest Chris Dougherty joins Chris and Melanie to discuss
his recent War on the Rocks article, “Gradually and then
Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s 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 and in the
near future to close the gap between the many demands on the
Navy, and the Navy’s 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 don’t know what
they’re talking about). Shoutouts for the Cuban people, Jeff
Bezos, Richard Branson, Wally Funk, and Gen. David Berger,
commandant of the Marine Corps.


 


Links


Christopher Dougherty, “Gradually and then Suddenly:
Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy,” War on the Rocks,
June 30, 2021 

Andrew Restuccia and Sarah E. Needleman, “Biden’s Facebook
Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House,” Wall
Street Journal, July 18, 2021 

Colleen Sinclair, “10 ways to spot online misinformation,”
The Conversation, March 27, 2020 (Updated September 17, 2020)