Churchill once demanded, “Take this pudding away — it has no theme!” U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle’s new Fighting Instructions presents a similar sort of dish.In November 2024, I argued in War on the Rocks that successive chiefs of naval operations developed a pattern of issuing strategic guidance that described aspirations but did not consistently impose the concrete direction necessary to guide naval force planning. In a March 2025 Atlantic Council paper evaluating the 2024 Chief of Naval Operations Navigation Plan for America’s Warfighting Navy, I similarly found that its guidance projected aspiration but did not consistentlyThe post The Navy’s Latest Is Not a Plan, Not a Strategy, and Not Fighting Instructions appeared first on War on the Rocks.
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