Trump Team Should Focus on Molding a New Generation of ‘Warrior Admirals’
12/05/2024
By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion writer.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced on Oct. 31 the formation of a new maritime Strategic Studies Group (SSG) modeled on the 1980’s Chief of Naval Operations group. Its mission is to “train future flag officers in strategic thinking and to conduct research on some of the Department of the Navy’s most vexing strategic challenges.”
The election of former President Donald J. Trump to a second term would likely obviate this effort, as John Phelan, Trump’s incoming Navy secretary, would have his own ideas and potential organizational changes for the naval services.
But the next Navy secretary should keep the core of Del Toro’s idea and create a group of upwardly mobile Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine captains and Marine Corps colonels to examine, assess, create and experiment with new concepts of Naval strategy and operations. The increasing tensions with China demand it.
https://www.defensedaily.com/commentary/trump-team-should-focus-on-molding-a-new-generation-of-warrior-admirals/
