CDR Salamander - Is the Navy Missing its Moment? An Hour with Chris Servello, on Midrats.

For a decade and a half, since President Obama’s Pacific Pivot speech, there has been a rising tide in the conversation about the need to fix the US Navy’s shortfall to meet the challenge of the People’s Republic of China.

Faced with systemic and cascading failures in everything from surface ship design to maintenance, and distractions as frivolous as Great Green Fleets at sea and as serious as the Islamic State ashore, navalists have been waiting for serious action on the waterfront to match the rising tide of the strategic situation.

Rhetorically at least, the second Trump administration came in saying all the right things to give hope that, at last, we would turn into the wind.

Are we?

Returning to the Midrats Podcast LIVE this Sunday at 5pm Eastern will be Chris Servello, CDR, USN (Ret.), cofounder of Provision Advisors PR Consultancy.

You can join the show live at this link.

If you miss the live show, check back on the Substack page Sunday evening when everything will be updated with the podcast links.

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