Bureaucrats and their proliferating red tape are a threat to preparing the Navy to fight tonight--or at least in the next couple years.
Are Navy desk jockeys China's secret weapon?
The present system of time allocation in the surface fleet is not a deliberate product of a warfighting-centric focus, but rather an unchecked process of creeping administrative overload. When new tacticians and training tools hit the fleet, they are eclipsed and diluted by a vast array of miscellaneous requirements. The leaders of the surface force must launch an effort to systematically protect time for tactics by aggressively pruning other requirements, or else these new efforts will fall short.
Woke infection has certainly been a problem at higher levels that distracts senior leadership from actual Navy responsibilities. But I have long figured the Mickey Mouse bureaucratic crap has been more of a problem than wokeness closer to the pointy end of the stick.
Though this is Army focused, we need a staff diet for the military to get in warfighting shape in the era of Great Power Competition.
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