More Maritime Strategists-Now

摘要

Captain R. Robinson Harris, U.S. Navy (Retired), Captain Peter Swartz, U.S. Navy (Retired), and Captain Dick Diamond, U.S. Navy (Retired)-Captain Hooper and Commander Pham's excellent article, which addresses the need for and ongoing actions to improve the development and employment of strategic thinking in the U.S. Navy, contains a factual error (p. 29) in listing the "Center of Naval Analyses-sponsored Strategic (sic) Discussion Group." The group's name is the Strategy (not Strategic) Discussion Group (SDG), and it is not sponsored by the Center for Naval Analyses. The SDG is an independent group that is not sponsored by any business or government agency or department. It is composed of active-duty and retired military personnel, civilian government officials, academia and think-tank scholars/analysts, congressional staffers, and business-community executives who share a common interest in fostering a robust discussion of predominantly maritime strategy and policy issues. The SDG traces its origins to the mid-1970s. It has mentored a number of young officers with an interest in maritime strategy and policy concerns over the decades.