The US Navy’s powerful ‘pep talk’ for a deadly serious contest
By James R. Holmes, opinion contributor — 12/27/18 09:30 AM EST
Two Mondays ago, the U.S. Navy leadership released “A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority 2.0,†a directive meant to help the navy adapt to a strategic environment in constant flux. Its central message: the navy must prepare to sprint a marathon. The sea service has lost its edge since the Cold War. It needs to get in shape pronto to compete against the likes of China and Russia.
Open-ended strategic competition is the marathon. But the navy must wage that competition at helter-skelter speed to keep pace with technology and warmaking methods that morph by the day. That’s the sprint. The naval establishment, then, maintains that time is simultaneously dilating and compressing in the strategic competition now under way. Prolonged uptempo operations are bound to tax the physical and mental fitness of any fighting force.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/422804-the-us-navys-powerful-pep-talk-for-a-deadly-serious-contest
