This must have been what it was like when the Roman Empire collapsed.
Daniel Greenfield ping
I cannot watch it. I just can’t. It fills me with rage.
Weapon System acquisition is hopelessly FUBAR’d.
Everything costs too much. Everything is behind schedule. Sustainment isn’t really planned for.
You’re looking at companies like Boeing and Raytheon to do excellent work. They can’t. And the DOD does not really care, at a fundamental level. It’s all about money flowing from this place to that place.
DEI is part of this problem, but this goes back at least to the mid 1990s and Defense Secretary William Perry’s decision to ban military specifications and standards. It’s been downhill from there and it gets worse all the time.
“We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”
Moronic statement.
But that's not what DEI is about. The limiting factor of DEI is "equality of outcome."
Sacrificing high-performance standards for "equality of outcome" is like a marathon race wherein all athletes must finish with the slowest runner.
Outcome is limited to the lowest common denominator of competence, conscientiousness, and intelligence.
You don’t need a navy to crush internal dissent, so it’s being let go.
Even if they build, commission and accept these new vessels, where are they going to get competent personnel to “person” them?
He did........................
Nothing is more "systemically racist" than DEI.
DEI automatically assumes that black people are less competent and incapable of achieving high-performance standards. Ergo, high-performance standards must be reduced to gave them a chance.
That's racist to the core.
It's almost as if some enemy state came up with a plan to rot out our military from the inside...
It’s becoming apparent that the proper functioning of modern high tech societies depends on a critical mass of highly competent people in key positions. When those people are replaced by mediocre individuals hired on the basis of appearance, things begin to fall apart. As those mediocre people are promoted (for the same reasons they were hired), they only hire others less competent than they are. At that point things fall apart VERY quickly. That’s where we are today.
COVID.
It’s hard.
The “Navy” doesn’t build ships. Private contractors do. The focus on delay needs to start there.
Certainly this DIE crap isn’t helping the Navy, but it’s not responsible for the problem discussed. Now, if we want to talk about maintaining and operating ships that’s a valid discussion.
“We believe that when a diverse group of individuals come together to do a job, they can do it better because of their differences.”
That right there is a prime example of a meaningless phrase containing no logic, intelligence, rigor, or purpose. It does pretend a lot, however. It is produced by those who struggle to gain two IQ points...otherwise known as “studies” majors.
Austin must be constantly shaking this toady Gilday off his leg and pulling his tongue out of his ear.
I served aboard a destroyer with different races. We got along just fine. I don’t recognize the military anymore.
Take that, Putin!!!! We don’t need no navy because WE ARE AMERICA, and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!!!
“We don’t have detailed plans of action, milestones, initiatives — we are identifying and deeply looking into where we are now...”
[This Guy throws up in his mouth a little bit...]
Our current Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she majored in journalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Franchetti