The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Michael Mullen, told attendees at the rollout of the Navy’s first EA-18G Growler jamming aircraft that the service is about to embark on a year-long overhaul of national maritime strategy. “Times have changed,” Mullen said, and the Navy and Marine Corps future needs a comprehensive re-think. He plans to involve lots of thinkers, from the Naval War College to industry to Washington think tanks, such that the final document will be a lasting plan that will “survive political changes, CNO changes” and the other vagaries of strategy.
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
