Red Over Red, the Failure of U.S. Navy Leadership
Well, from a completely cynical perspective I&#x27;m curious if this is what it takes to get government agencies with an operating policy completely disconnected from reality to start functioning properly.<p>Similar to how the competition between the CIA&#x2F;FBI and the two-decade-too-late lack of connection between information systems prevented them from being able to detect 9&#x2F;11 despite having multiple (disconnected) early indicators.<p>I&#x27;ve read enough War Nerd blog posts [1] to know the American Navy (and Airforce) are completely disconnected from the reality of modern warfare by still being obsessed with billion dollar aircraft carriers and expensive &#x27;stealth&#x27; jets from a bygone era (3-4 decades ago) which would be the lowest hanging fruit in any modern war. Basically billion dollar machines that will be predictably destroyed within the early hours of any combat by a barrage of low cost missiles and highly mobile small attack boats by today&#x27;s well known adversaries.<p>Although those are the disconnects from the highly complex real-world situations their stated mandates would put them in...whereas crashing into a commercial boats in high-traffic sea lanes seems like something that no sophisticated Navy should suffering from twice in a few months...let alone having multiple fatalities from each. So I&#x27;m not sure how to react to this honestly.<p>Other than having zero surprise that it&#x27;s happening to one of the bigger modern governments where disfunction is the status quo and cronyism outranks tangible progress.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pando.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-war-nerd-iran-is-building-a-fake-aircraft-carrier-how-can-you-tell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pando.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-war-nerd-iran-is-building-a...</a>