January 9, 2025

The Sinking of the USS Agility

In April of 2020 on my final day in office as the Acting Secretary of the Navy I formally named the new class of American frigate warships the “Agility Class.”  The first ship of the class was to be called the “USS Agility...

November 19, 2024

Advice to Vivek and Elon: Don’t Create the DOGE!

I vividly recall walking through the corridors of Saddam Hussein’s palace in the Green Zone in Baghdad in 2006.  I was there as part of a team helping to develop a strategy to reinvigorate Iraqi businesses that had been decimated by w...