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The US Navy’s Three Great Intellectual Challenges
« on: January 22, 2020, 12:30:41 pm »

The US Navy’s Three Great Intellectual Challenges

    By John R. Kroger Chief Learning Officer, U.S. Navy Read bio

January 21, 2020


Design the force, wrestle with change, buy ships.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are developing an aggressive naval education strategy to deepen the intellectual capabilities of our force. Our goal, following the leadership of Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly, is to build a highly educated team with a deep understanding of strategy, geopolitics, emerging technologies, resource management, and weapons acquisitions. This focus on education is vital to national security because for the next 25 years, three of the Navy’s strategic biggest challenges will be intellectual, not operational or tactical, in character.

Design the future naval force. The Navy’s biggest challenge is to design a force structure to meet a new era of great uncertainty.

Since 1989, the United States has enjoyed unquestioned command of the seas; our naval force has been designed with that in mind. Our task has not been to establish control over sea lanes, but to use our total control to project power far inland, using carrier aircraft, sea-launched cruise missiles, and Marine brigades. But that era has ended, thanks to the resurgence of Chinese and Russian naval power and the spread of advanced missile technology.

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/01/us-navys-three-great-intellectual-challenges/162543/