The 72 hour war needs changed to, "Respond in such a way that within 72 hours that we will force you to change your plans." That would be the we learned something from Ukraine approach for a start.
We have to guarantee big enough ammo contracts that the munitions makers (and munitions divisions of larger defense contractors) can afford to hire a bunch of 4 stars after they retire, duh.
"End of History" and "war is passe' and can't happen between trading partners" and any number of other cliches that fed the "peace dividend" BS that people in DC sold each other.
To recover quickly, we need to work with allies to divide workload. We need SK and Japan and other people who can put hulls in the water to do so and our other allies need to buy them. Settle on a ship type and buy them. We can add 20 ships a year that way.
We need the DoD Primes to bring in Subs and fund them to increase capacity for missile and armament production - distributed manufacturing, with vetting. Lots of industrial space out there that could be acquired and used and lots of people in those towns and small cities that would love that job.
There are ways to do this, we just need to get out of our own way. Also, stop the BS "divest to invest" and increase the budget to meet the crisis. Task and purpose.
Maintaining a huge inventory of supplies is very expensive especially when you are the policeman of the world and feel obligated to impose the our system on every other country in the world.
Simplistically, this is a guns and butter issue. Do we use finite funds to buy guns in order to assure our national survival or does D.C. buy butter to ensure their own political viability in the next election? The fault lies with the voters. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
Well, he works for the disastrous Gilday, aka, Admiral Rust. The intellectual vacuum at the top on topics that matter is vast. A “career” could be lost bucking the party line.
I’ll take this moment to thank CDR Sal for his tireless efforts as a true Patriot as he continues to strengthen our Nation by improving out Navy through his blessing of writing ability, knowledge and tenacity. I look in the mirror and wonder how can I help? Perhaps I could join my local Navy League chapter and bring this dialog to that setting. Summer is coming and the rusty Navy Ships and old F-18C Blue Angels are soon arriving to the Navy Weeks and SeaFairs if all the liberal cities of our Nation, along with the 3-4 Stars to bask in the glory and enjoy the pu-pu’s and easy softball questions at the numerous receptions. Would be a great forum for the always present Navy League representative to ask the hard questions?
The best thing I learned in Grad school that can be applied to just about anything, especially organizationally, in life is to do an honest, thorough SWOTs analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). We drilled on it constantly, and it can be an eye-opener. Enough of an eye-opener that running the analysis can start making you wonder what the hell management has been doing and how the hell the organization's been surviving. I can't imagine the carnage that would result from an honest third-party analysis of every government department/division.
For the first time in 80 years will may be facing peer militaries in actual combat--China and Russia. We must be thankful for both of these to having tipped their hands too soon. China for it's COVID bioweapon that blew apart the concept of just-in-time inventory management. And, for Russia, now engaged in a land war that is consuming men and material at a rate not seen since WWII.
Just in time. Maybe we'll start a program of rearmament that will realistically address what a real war will consume far, far more that than any Pentagon planner could ever imagine. And consumption of basic commodities like bullets and artillery shells. WWII being so unfashionably last century; we will fight with wonder-weapons.
And did you know, that's to Obama's EPA, we have no lead smelting capability in America? Nor can we manufacture penicillin. It's that bad.
600 ship Navy. Go with knowns, expanding the production of Ford carriers, Burke destroyers and Virginia submarines. If the EPA shows up, have the military police escort them off.
"The Cult of Efficiency’s green eye-shade priorities took the place of the bookshelf full of history’s example."
War is the very epitome of inefficiency. Which is why the aphorism is "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."
We've been studying superficial indicators of HR (while ignoring the the cancer growing in the belly of the berthing spaces and barracks) to the near exclusion of warfighting in general, much less boring old "don't get a ship named after me" logistics.
A pox on the GOFOs across the Services. Of course, we reap what we sow, and we have exactly the GOFO Corps the politicos want.
Heh. So did the French in 1940 and Russians in 1941. Look at how well that went, and what the cost of recovering from it was. Of course, the politicos and their spawn never pay the price. Just the pawns and their direct leadership.
The fundamental problem with our inventory is that we've gold plated all the replacement rounds. Look around the flight deck today ... do you see any plain "vanilla" MK82 bombs sitting around? They've all been replaced with the latest "J-series" acronym weapon that took decades to develop (after they were canceled three times and renamed a dozen times) and that we can only afford to buy a dozen of a year. Everybody on the front porch rails against retiring the CG's due to the reduction in VLS cells. I got news for everyone, we wouldn't be able to fill them all up at the going prices for SM-6's anyway.
The first thing that needs to happen to refill our magazines is to reduce the cost, per round, of the replacements. This happens by buying Mk82's and SM-2's instead of JSOWs, JDAMS, PJDAMS, etc. The next thing to do is get rid of every single joint coded billet in the military. JFCOM was shut down years ago, but those billets and staff just moved up to DC and now waste billions each year admiring problems the services are already trying to address, but have to wait for "joint approval" to move forward.
Do those two things and the Pentagon will have the money to refill our stockpiles in very short order.
The 72 hour war needs changed to, "Respond in such a way that within 72 hours that we will force you to change your plans." That would be the we learned something from Ukraine approach for a start.
We have to guarantee big enough ammo contracts that the munitions makers (and munitions divisions of larger defense contractors) can afford to hire a bunch of 4 stars after they retire, duh.
"End of History" and "war is passe' and can't happen between trading partners" and any number of other cliches that fed the "peace dividend" BS that people in DC sold each other.
To recover quickly, we need to work with allies to divide workload. We need SK and Japan and other people who can put hulls in the water to do so and our other allies need to buy them. Settle on a ship type and buy them. We can add 20 ships a year that way.
We need the DoD Primes to bring in Subs and fund them to increase capacity for missile and armament production - distributed manufacturing, with vetting. Lots of industrial space out there that could be acquired and used and lots of people in those towns and small cities that would love that job.
There are ways to do this, we just need to get out of our own way. Also, stop the BS "divest to invest" and increase the budget to meet the crisis. Task and purpose.
Maintaining a huge inventory of supplies is very expensive especially when you are the policeman of the world and feel obligated to impose the our system on every other country in the world.
Simplistically, this is a guns and butter issue. Do we use finite funds to buy guns in order to assure our national survival or does D.C. buy butter to ensure their own political viability in the next election? The fault lies with the voters. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
Good. Now do maintenance…
Well, he works for the disastrous Gilday, aka, Admiral Rust. The intellectual vacuum at the top on topics that matter is vast. A “career” could be lost bucking the party line.
Admiral Pyle can say that as he is not on the hook to pay for said munitions. Glad he did say regardless.
Munitions stocks are not sexy, and the storage facilities are in nasty places (Fallon, for example)...
I’ll take this moment to thank CDR Sal for his tireless efforts as a true Patriot as he continues to strengthen our Nation by improving out Navy through his blessing of writing ability, knowledge and tenacity. I look in the mirror and wonder how can I help? Perhaps I could join my local Navy League chapter and bring this dialog to that setting. Summer is coming and the rusty Navy Ships and old F-18C Blue Angels are soon arriving to the Navy Weeks and SeaFairs if all the liberal cities of our Nation, along with the 3-4 Stars to bask in the glory and enjoy the pu-pu’s and easy softball questions at the numerous receptions. Would be a great forum for the always present Navy League representative to ask the hard questions?
Thanks God!
4-stars be too busy DEI'in n'stuff.
The best thing I learned in Grad school that can be applied to just about anything, especially organizationally, in life is to do an honest, thorough SWOTs analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). We drilled on it constantly, and it can be an eye-opener. Enough of an eye-opener that running the analysis can start making you wonder what the hell management has been doing and how the hell the organization's been surviving. I can't imagine the carnage that would result from an honest third-party analysis of every government department/division.
For the first time in 80 years will may be facing peer militaries in actual combat--China and Russia. We must be thankful for both of these to having tipped their hands too soon. China for it's COVID bioweapon that blew apart the concept of just-in-time inventory management. And, for Russia, now engaged in a land war that is consuming men and material at a rate not seen since WWII.
Just in time. Maybe we'll start a program of rearmament that will realistically address what a real war will consume far, far more that than any Pentagon planner could ever imagine. And consumption of basic commodities like bullets and artillery shells. WWII being so unfashionably last century; we will fight with wonder-weapons.
And did you know, that's to Obama's EPA, we have no lead smelting capability in America? Nor can we manufacture penicillin. It's that bad.
600 ship Navy. Go with knowns, expanding the production of Ford carriers, Burke destroyers and Virginia submarines. If the EPA shows up, have the military police escort them off.
Heh.
"The Cult of Efficiency’s green eye-shade priorities took the place of the bookshelf full of history’s example."
War is the very epitome of inefficiency. Which is why the aphorism is "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."
We've been studying superficial indicators of HR (while ignoring the the cancer growing in the belly of the berthing spaces and barracks) to the near exclusion of warfighting in general, much less boring old "don't get a ship named after me" logistics.
A pox on the GOFOs across the Services. Of course, we reap what we sow, and we have exactly the GOFO Corps the politicos want.
Heh. So did the French in 1940 and Russians in 1941. Look at how well that went, and what the cost of recovering from it was. Of course, the politicos and their spawn never pay the price. Just the pawns and their direct leadership.
The fundamental problem with our inventory is that we've gold plated all the replacement rounds. Look around the flight deck today ... do you see any plain "vanilla" MK82 bombs sitting around? They've all been replaced with the latest "J-series" acronym weapon that took decades to develop (after they were canceled three times and renamed a dozen times) and that we can only afford to buy a dozen of a year. Everybody on the front porch rails against retiring the CG's due to the reduction in VLS cells. I got news for everyone, we wouldn't be able to fill them all up at the going prices for SM-6's anyway.
The first thing that needs to happen to refill our magazines is to reduce the cost, per round, of the replacements. This happens by buying Mk82's and SM-2's instead of JSOWs, JDAMS, PJDAMS, etc. The next thing to do is get rid of every single joint coded billet in the military. JFCOM was shut down years ago, but those billets and staff just moved up to DC and now waste billions each year admiring problems the services are already trying to address, but have to wait for "joint approval" to move forward.
Do those two things and the Pentagon will have the money to refill our stockpiles in very short order.