Byron York
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VP Kamala Harris’ Naval Academy commencement speech revealed a strikingly different vision for America’s armed forces than Academy speeches by her two VP predecessors, Mike Pence and Joe Biden. Link: Kamala Harris’ Navy.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1399323669210480647
Kamala Harris’s Navy
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday. Few in the press paid much attention to what she said. If they had, they would have heard Harris give voice to a vision for America’s armed forces that is strikingly different from previous administrations, both Republican and Democratic.
Harris told the graduating class that the COVID pandemic has changed the world, much as Pearl Harbor, and the Civil Rights Act, and the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the world in the past. Today’s situation presents new threats, Harris explained. “A deadly pandemic can spread throughout the globe in just a matter of months. A gang of hackers can disrupt the fuel supply of a whole seaboard. One country’s carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability of the whole earth.”
“The challenge before us now,” Harris said, “is how to mount a modern defense to these modern threats.”
Harris told the graduates they should excel at pursuits like developing artificial intelligence, robotics, and other technologies. Military expertise proved quite valuable during the pandemic, she said, noting, for example, that “naval researchers figured out how to use 3D knitting machines to make masks.”
But Harris paid particular attention to “a very real threat to our national security” — climate change. “You are ocean engineers who will help navigate ships through thinning ice,” Harris said, in her only acknowledgment that the Navy has any sort of relationship with the world’s oceans. “You are mechanical engineers who will help reinforce sinking bases. You are electrical engineers who will soon help convert solar and wind energy into power, convert solar and wind energy into combat power. And just ask any Marine today, would she rather carry 20 pounds of batteries or a rolled-up solar panel? And I am positive she will tell you a solar panel, and so would he.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kamala-harris-navy
Artificial intelligence and robotics without electricity? Oh wait. A few will have electricity while others are rationed.
That rolled up solar panel works real well at night, I hear./s
I’m ignorant about this stuff, but if the panel is rolled up, what good is it? How about when the sun isn’t shining? The panel will fit in backpack so hands are free?
Did she think this through or am I off base here?
I wonder how many times the Midshipman wished that they could groan. Climate change is not the threat to our freedom that the CCP is, Kamala.