Kaplan on US Navy Decline

If you haven't read America’s Elegant Decline by Robert D. Kaplan, the piece is long but worth it.

Those who are not subscribers to the Atlantic can read it in full at the US Navy Office of Information News Clips, in the Thursday October 4th edition.

Kaplan adds to a number of recent essays on what can be described as either the end of a naval era, or the beginning of a new era. The problem with either statement is the assumption that the US is actually engaged in such change. I fail to see evidence, and unless the upcoming Navy Maritime Strategy can find a way to penetrate the interests of public policy there is little evidence that the defense bureaucracy is interested in change.