Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy’s No. 2 officer, has been leading the service on an acting basis because of the impasse.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Navy’s top officer, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, said it could take the service years to recover from the impacts of Sen. Tommy Tuberville‘s blockade of hundreds of senior military promotions.

Franchetti told the Senate Armed Services Committee during her confirmation hearing Thursday that the impasse has created “a lot of uncertainty” for Navy families.

“Just at the three-star level, it would take about three to four months just to move all the people around,” Franchetti said. “But it will take years to recover … from the promotion delays that we would see.”

    • @[email protected]English
      20•1 year ago

      Tell me you have zero understanding of geopolitics and global defense policy implications without telling me you have zero understanding of geopolitics and global defense policy implications

        • @[email protected]English
          14•1 year ago

          I’ve got no illusions about how shitty America is in a lot of ways. The fact that we have a military whose primary purpose is to exist as a force in being to dissuade large, authoritarian, expansionist, and (regardless of whatever tankie revisionism you’ll undoubtedly spout) neo-imperialist countries (China, Russia) from simply redrawing the lines on the map as they see fit and rolling their tanks in is emphatically not one of America’s shitty aspects.

          And yes, our military has been used to do shitty things for shitty reasons. I am not justifying or excusing that; it’s right to call us and our politicians out for that idiocy. But our military has also made the casual military use of nuclear weapons since the end of WW2 by anyone a non-starter. On balance, I think that’s a pretty clear net positive. And the majority of Americans are trying to push things in a better direction, despite the political and electoral mechanisms that are aimed at preventing us from doing so.

          • queermunist she/her
            -36•1 year ago

            America has killed millions of people and committed multiple genocides; the majority of Americans are irrelevant to the military industrial complex.

            The Navy is our enemy.

            • BaroqueInMind
              19•1 year ago

              I love that the internet allows everyone to have a voice here, as preposterously stupid as it is.

            • @[email protected]English
              17•1 year ago

              I don’t think this conversation is going to have a trajectory that does anything other than annoy me, and give you a chance to spout more comically naïve and myopic idiocy.

    • clif
      15•1 year ago

      I feel like there’s a story here.

    • @ClentEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      You should be abolished.