Could not agree more. As a senior officer that has lived through many 30 year shipbuilding plans they always include a dip in force structure betting on a future that has not come to pass. We DECOM’d 5 CGs that were capable of the advanced air threats of their times. We committed to a an LCS program that was fundamentally flawed in capability from the get go. We have been subjected to DoD over sight that has destroyed our ability to field new battle force capable ships from 3 per decade to 1 in three decades. No value add. While politics play in resourcing it is the USN itself that routinely shoots itself in the foot as it tries to balance shipbuilding industrial base with maintaining an active force capable of dealing with the constantly evolving requirements of world national security needs. Note an attack submarine that has been waiting over 3 years for effective overhaul. Sad!
Is there anything that says a quorum didn't count on this thing? 5 is enough to have a meeting. Freedom of Assembly. Forget the rules. Assemble. Get together with both Sals, Dimitry F, etc and make your own conference aired live over their combined podcasts. Get Jon Konrad to pay for it ;) along with viewers like us.....
Surely (OK, I won't call you "Shirley") you didn't expect an "Administration" whose demonstrated goal is to cut defense in favor of welfare giveaways to effectively support the commission--much less pay other than lip service to any results therefrom?
If you don't want an answer, form a commission and ignore. A lot of Congress doesn't want answers for certain questions. Or at least certain answers to those questions.
I feel your pain and frustration. I think a lot of folks out there who care about our country's future and especially our NAVY are equally frustrated as well. It is a shame that this commission has gone nowhere. The one thing I do wish though, is that we reach out to individuals who are not the same "think tank" folks and find new blood, new outside thinkers. Keep up the good fight, sir.
The NatSec sleepwalk continues.
Could not agree more. As a senior officer that has lived through many 30 year shipbuilding plans they always include a dip in force structure betting on a future that has not come to pass. We DECOM’d 5 CGs that were capable of the advanced air threats of their times. We committed to a an LCS program that was fundamentally flawed in capability from the get go. We have been subjected to DoD over sight that has destroyed our ability to field new battle force capable ships from 3 per decade to 1 in three decades. No value add. While politics play in resourcing it is the USN itself that routinely shoots itself in the foot as it tries to balance shipbuilding industrial base with maintaining an active force capable of dealing with the constantly evolving requirements of world national security needs. Note an attack submarine that has been waiting over 3 years for effective overhaul. Sad!
Unfortunately, this is one of the ever growing mountains of evidence that we are an unserious electorate with an unserious Congress.
Is there anything that says a quorum didn't count on this thing? 5 is enough to have a meeting. Freedom of Assembly. Forget the rules. Assemble. Get together with both Sals, Dimitry F, etc and make your own conference aired live over their combined podcasts. Get Jon Konrad to pay for it ;) along with viewers like us.....
Surely (OK, I won't call you "Shirley") you didn't expect an "Administration" whose demonstrated goal is to cut defense in favor of welfare giveaways to effectively support the commission--much less pay other than lip service to any results therefrom?
If you don't want an answer, form a commission and ignore. A lot of Congress doesn't want answers for certain questions. Or at least certain answers to those questions.
I don't think they even want the questions.
Great point!
“The bucket has a hole in the bottom.” Sadly true. Congressional tergiversation has made that hole larger, not smaller.
Bryan,
I feel your pain and frustration. I think a lot of folks out there who care about our country's future and especially our NAVY are equally frustrated as well. It is a shame that this commission has gone nowhere. The one thing I do wish though, is that we reach out to individuals who are not the same "think tank" folks and find new blood, new outside thinkers. Keep up the good fight, sir.
Best,
Nigel