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The Greenert Gambit: Playing Moneyball with the Pivot to the Pacific

CNO’s 30-Year Shipbuilding Strategy Reflects Lessons of his Favorite Book Sometimes you need a Brad Pitt, sometimes you need a Jonah Hill. Armchair Admirals and defense analysts alike lit up the...

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The Capability Cost of a Flight III Ballistic Missile Sea Shield

The following is part of our series “Alternatives to the U.S. Navy’s DDG Flight III“ DDG-51 Flt III and the Shifting Sands of BMD Requirements To intercept a ballistic missile intercept, platforms must...

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Escape from Sochi: Montreux Convention Considerations and the Moneyball Fleet

Snake Plissken: A good solution for a 1 person rescue, not a 10,000 person NEO. The Russians are not ready to host the Olympic Games.  Everything from the hotel roofs to the perimeter security leaks...

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Strategic Communication and the Growing Australia–Indonesia Crisis

This post originally appeared at the Australia Strategic Policy Institute and was cross-posted by permission. The United States has thus far avoided getting publicly involved in the Indonesia–Australia...

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The Greenert Gambit Revisited: Is CNO’s Moneyball Fleet Still the Solution?

The key assumptions behind the “Moneyball” 30 Year Shipbuilding Plan in support of the “Pivot to the Pacific” are unraveling.  The USN force structure is proving itself to be fundamentally disconnected...

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