Stop Politicizing Ship Names (Part II)
Proceedings Magazine - June 2017 Vol.
By Colonel Mark Cancian, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
(Retired)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The May Proceedings includes an excellent article by James Young—“We Must Change How We Name Ships”—about the politicization of naming Navy ships. My purpose is to be more blunt about the problem.
The Obama administration took politicizing ship names to a new level, naming ships after its political heroes. The Democratic administration even named ships that had not yet been authorized, trying to bind subsequent administrations. With a Republican administration now in office, the Navy is in danger of being whipsawed to the right in its ships’ names. Politicization of the military already has gone far enough without adding this new dimension.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-06/stop-politicizing-ship-names-part-ii
