{"id":401248,"date":"2026-02-24T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=401248"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:57:15","slug":"where-did-it-all-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=401248","title":{"rendered":"Where Did It All Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/navy-matters.blogspot.com\/2026\/02\/where-did-it-all-go-wrong.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navy Matters.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clearly, today\u2019s Navy is badly broken in almost every respect but that wasn\u2019t always the case. In WWII, the Navy was an efficient, deadly, fighting force that knew how to produce warriors and ships on a routine basis. What changed between then and now? Where did it all go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the \u201cwhat changed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>From the early 1900&#8217;s (pre-WWI) on, the Navy had an intense focus on combat effectiveness (with a few notable exceptions such as the WWII faulty torpedo fiasco). After the late 1950&#8217;s and early 1960&#8217;s, the war veterans (those who understood combat and designed ships to meet that requirement) retired leaving people whose focus shifted from combat to career. The focus became empire building, budget pursuit, and career enhancement rather than combat-effective ship and fleet design and procurement. Without the crucible and filter of combat to weed out the incompetent, idiots who were politically adroit took over and foolish policies became the norm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy Matters. Clearly, today\u2019s Navy is badly broken in almost every respect but that wasn\u2019t always the case. In WWII, the Navy was an efficient, deadly, fighting force that knew how to produce warriors and ships on a routine basis. What changed between then and now? Where did it all go wrong? Let\u2019s start with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401249,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401248\/revisions\/401249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}