2017 SUBMARINE TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM ADDRESS VICE ADMIRAL RICK BRECKENRIDGE, USN

摘要

In summary, I ask that you recalibrate your picture of reality to look at some of the longer-term but more important trends include these features: 1.A budget chart showing that it is not the Navy, or defense, or core government functions that are creating budgetary pressure, and cuts in these areas are not the solution. 2.An image of history showing that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and North Koreans are the same totalitarian, authoritarian oppressive expansionists that they were 70, 50 and 30 years ago, and we need to view our important global role with that kind of long-term perspective. 3.That navy investment is hitting an inflection point and we need to make future decisions based on different rules than the past. Some things we did not fund need to be resurrected. Some things we have not considered need to be in the program. Our investments need to be mindful of the long-term struggle that we are in.