Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Wow, congestion and reliance on tech by the command leadership wouldn't have anything to do with it. There are more ships and planes than ever before and we rely on tech and more and more to make the system work. The command responsible for, and that chose to operate "safely" in this manner is neither millenial or Gen Z.
Is the command ultimately responsible, yes. However, at the end of the day the vasy majority of functions in the Navy are run by enlisted. You could remove the officer staff from a destroyer or submarine and it would be fully mission capable- dirty, but lethal.
That being said, it comes down to the types of people hired to sit in front of that fire control console, radar, nav plot, DC central, etc. Usually a chief or senior E6 running the show. Our enlisted ranks are in trouble. Whether it is managaing damage control, propulsion or conducting squad tactics on the battlefield, it comes down to the NCO leadership within the enlisted ranks.
The US adopted the German way of fighting, we have lost that edge and replaced with some other metric for promotion.