Always in the details.
First, let’s dive into Mark Esper’s remarks at Rand Corporation on the future of the Navy fleet.
Here’s Esper’s central argument:
Excerpt:
Ship numbers are important, but they don’t tell the whole story.
They do not address the types of ships and the capabilities of the vessels being counted; the skill of the crews that operate them; the prowess of the officers that lead them; or the ways in which we fight and sustain them…just to name a few.
Nonetheless, we must stay ahead; we must retain our overmatch; and we will keep building modern ships to ensure we remain the world’s greatest Navy.