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> This review was conducted at the direction of Senator Tom Cotton and Congressmen Mike Gallagher, Jim Banks, and Dan Crenshaw as a strictly nonpartisan exercis
by lovich 5y ago
> This review was conducted at the direction of Senator Tom Cotton and Congressmen Mike Gallagher, Jim Banks, and Dan Crenshaw as a strictly nonpartisan exercise in Congressional oversight.
Those are all politicians from a single party. Is “strictly non partisan exercise” a piece of military jargon that’s different from regular English like in legal documents, or is this sketchy from the first sentence
Seeing “Corrosive Over-Responsiveness to Media Culture”, as a complaint about our military which is nominally subjective to the civilians as a whole, put me on edge about this already
Edit: read through the rest of the report and saw that they called out journalism as a vital job for the country but the problem was with the navy not focusing on their own job.
- yodon 5y ago>Is “strictly non partisan exercise” a piece of military jargon that’s different from regular English like in legal documents, or is this sketchy from the first sentence. Having read the full linked document, I would suggest your implication that this report is a partisan-politically motivated document is far from on target. The concerns the report raises are significant, critical to national defense, and broadly seconded by most other recent writings on the health of the US Navy as an organization. If the Navy were to be called upon to defend the US or its allies in a peer level conflict today, several decades of training, maintenance, and leadership neglect make failure a likely outcome. This report is important. As General Mattis says in the report, "the United States does not have a preordained right to victory on the battlefield." If one fails to acknowledge and address issues like these in peacetime, there will not be time to do so in wartime.