This administration is lost at sea.
FRANCIS P. SEMPA writes in The American Spectator:
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro just released “Climate Action 2030,” a 32-page report which identifies climate change as an “existential threat” to the U.S. Navy and the nation. In the report’s Foreword, Del Toro writes that climate is “the focal point” for his tenure as Navy Secretary, and notes that both President Biden and Defense Secretary Austin share that view. The Navy Department, Del Toro writes, will be an “environmental leader” that takes “bold climate action.” We have come a long way since Alfred Thayer Mahan, the great sea power strategist and historian, with the full support of Navy Secretary Benjamin Tracy, steered our naval leaders to focus on sea command, strategic chokepoints, and sea lines of communication in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And we have come a long way since Navy Secretaries like James Forrestal contributed to the geopolitical strategy of containment in the late 1940s, and John Lehman and Jim Webb promoted a 600-ship navy and maritime strategy for winning the Cold War.
The Navy Department report establishes two performance goals: to “build climate resilience” and “reduce climate threat.” Del Toro’s stated goal is to have the Navy Department “reduce its greenhouse gas emissions,” “stabilize ecosystems,” and “achieve … net-zero emissions by 2050.” Compare that to the goal of our nation’s most threatening naval adversary — China’s PLA Navy — which is to become the world’s leading naval power by 2049.
The Navy Department report is filled with color photographs of hurricanes, floods, electric vehicles, military families participating in an “oyster castle installation,” naval installations with solar panels, naval officers helping with disaster relief efforts, employees at a naval base planting salt marsh plants, electric-powered amphibious assault ships, and naval officers helping to install “mosquito surveillance and control equipment.” There are no photos of naval warfare, no references to Mahan, no discussion of the challenge posed by the PLA Navy.
https://spectator.org/bidens-navy-secretary-the-existential-threat-is-climate-change/
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HT/Climate Depot
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In WWIII there won’t be any sleepy commanders in chief to blame and no one to do the blaming. Until then it’s all a game, right Joe?
Well then, obviously the Navy needs to get rid of all of its ships, aircraft, and vehicles so we don’t all die!
I always thought that although loony Democrats might be elected to office, the military would hold fast to its traditions and mission – to protect the nation from foreign military threats.
I’m gobsmacked! How the hell did they manage to take over the armed forces??? It’s a coup!
How the hell did they manage to take over the armed forces?
By putting political appointees with the “right” beliefs in the top leadership positions. This then impacts promotions for the slightly lower leadership, as they need to toe the ideological line if they want any career advancement.
Thinking wrong thoughts cannot be tolerated, especially when engaged in military action.
I fear the Babylon Bee can’t parody fast enough to stay ahead of reality.
Antonio Gramsci’s strategy of cultural Marxism, alternatively described as Rudi Dutschke’s strategy of Communism’s long march through the institutions.
America’s civilizational threat is Islam. America’s military threat is China.
WTF. The civilian leadership of the US navy has named its foe and that foe is climate change. They can raise the white flags of surrender now as it is clear there is no possible way that the US navy can stop the climate from changing. Why not cancel their budget and invest all that spare cash in building a fighting force that can travel the seas and defend the nation from well-armed enemies.
Here’s an idle thought. You know how it’s impossible to defend against the no-see-ums, black flies, and mosquitoes?
Why not get rid of every naval ship larger than a shore launch and put every member of the Navy on armed jet skis?
Can you imagine what it would be like trying to defend against a half-million of armed, zippy little rocket-firing craft… and then 200,000 reinforcements show up?
I’m not sure anyone has thought of that, prolly because then everyone would be captain of ther ‘ship’. Can’t have that, I suppose. How do you get promoted?
Someone needs to post the chart of Hurricanes getting weaker. The Navy worrying about calmer seas is a complete joke.
This is what the Navy Fears? What a joke.
Hurricane Activity Close To Lowest On Record In Last Year
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/hurricane-activity-close-to-lowest-on-record-in-last-year/
The Party sell out to advocacy groups extends to your national defense while a land war rages in Europe.