Navy Matters

The Navy is currently a flaming hot mess.   It’s not even debatable and I won’t bother listing all the problems.   President Trump appears t...

SecDef (SecWar?) Hegseth has delivered his speech to the assembled leadership of the US military and it was one of the best speeches I’ve he...

ComNavOps has expressed both hope in SecDef Hegseth and an ominously growing sense of disappointment about the Secretary.   Hegseth talked t...

As you know, the F-35 does not yet have its full combat capabilities.   Those were part of the incremental Block software upgrades and shoul...

As you know, ComNavOps is not yet an enthusiastic supporter of SecDef Hegseth.   He says the right things but his actions, thus far, have be...

Since Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense, I’ve been waiting for him to do something meaningful.   In my mind, that would be ...

  This from SecDef Pete Hegseth during an interview with Shannon Bream,   “We won World War II with seven four star generals, Shannon. We ha...

In a not entirely unexpected, and very welcome move, SecDef Hegseth has fired CNO Franchetti.   During her tenure, she accomplished nothing,...

Fox’s TV commentary show, ‘Outnumbered’, had a discussion about President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks and had a brief discussion about the S...

The dumbing down continues.     The Army is tossing its mandate for potential recruits to have a high school diploma or GED certific...

There’s an old and very wise proverb that goes,   It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak and remove all dou...

I’m sure you all recall the memo issued by then Secretary of Defense Mattis in Sep 2018 that mandated that F-35 and F-18 aircraft would ac...

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld   (1975-1977 and 2001-2006) single-handedly instituted the policy of transformationalism whereby he f...