RE: The Future of the Navy: A View from the Top

Steve Brenneis opines:

You just gotta love bureaucratic jargon:

"But 4th generation warfare is a new thing, involving non-state actors and the battle for ideas, enemies that are looking block U.S. military advantages and exploit seams in existing systems, and the use of asymmetric means to achieve goals and objectives."

What the heck does all that mean? Leave it to the military bureaucracy to produce content-free gibberish in its published works.

I remember a Navy Chief I met once whose Dad had served with Carter in the Navy. I'll never forget what he said: "That guy was a blivet when he was on my Dad's boat. Once a blivet, always a blivet."

I'll save you the trouble of looking up blivet. It's a military term that generally means someone who has an overblown sense of self importance. The literal definition among military men is ten pounds of fecal matter in a five pound bag. I think that speaks for itself.