Nothing Will Change Until Something ChangesCommentary
Kurt Campbell, now at the White House, came up with the "Pacific Pivot" in approximately 2010. It was a good, pithy, and impactful slogan. That was 2010. To be frank, progress on the "Pacific Pivot" has been painful, slow, and curiously void of hard accomplishments.
In the Obama, Trump, and now Biden administrations, the plodding, laborious iterations of the Navy Shipbuilding Plan (the foundational enabling element of the Pacific Pivot) have taken multiple, no-notice changes in ship numbers, types, and projected in-service dates, so many as to become an object of humor among the halls of the Pentagon while action officers and planners go to the food court for their morning coffee....
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