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CSBA’s van Tol on USS John McCain Collision, Preventing US Navy Accidents
Capt. Jan van Tol, USN Ret., senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, says the USS John McCain’s capabilities as a destroyer should have allowed it to avoid its Aug. 21, 2017, collision “even at the last moment,” and discusses its aftermath and how to break the US Navy’s pattern of accidents during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at CSBA’s Washington headquarters.
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Bryan Clark: What’s going on with all these Navy collisions?
One grounding might be an isolated incident. Four ship collisions and 17 sailors dead in the span of eight months, that’s a trend. And not a good one. With some insight into what might be going on inside a troubled Navy, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Bryan Clark, former special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations and now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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No easy answers for what’s wrong with the Navy
In an interview with Bryan Clark, of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, I learned a couple of things. Including that while Navy tradition lays responsibility at the commander’s feet, the move doesn’t fix what’s wrong.
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Trump’s Afghanistan plan to be injected into already complicated budget fight
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said she thought the requested OCO increase would be more like $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion "as soon as the administration has settled on an end-strength for Afghanistan and funded as part of a continuing resolution at the end of September."
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Trouble in the Seventh Fleet: what may be behind Navy collisions
“Over the last three or four years, there’s been a realization that the Navy is being stretched pretty thin,” says Bryan Clark, former special assistant to the chief of naval operations, the Navy’s highest ranking military officer. “It can all be taken back to this major root cause, which is supply not being able to keep up with demand,” adds Mr. Clark, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), a public policy research institute based in Washington, D.C.
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Trump says he wants to keep the number of new Afghanistan troops ‘secret’ – here’s why that doesn’t make sense
According to the non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the cost is roughly $1.4 million (£1.1 million), while the Defence Department has quoted a figure of $850,000 (£663,000).