Commentary Legendary American Naval Officer John Paul Jones said, “I intend to go into harm’s way.” Our current U.S. Navy’s theme is, unfortunately, “I intend to sail into a safe space and focus on wokeness.” The abject disaster, which is the current U.S. Navy, is shameful in light of the quickening pace of a showdown with China. I’ve personally worked strategic cyber issues with Admiral Gilday and his staff and have a very positive impression from those days and those efforts. However, the current state of affairs in the U.S. Navy is baffling. We have irreplaceable capitol ships burning into total losses pier side, pervasive morale issues, and a loss of basic seamanship. Retired Marine General Robert Schmidle (whom I’ve worked with) and Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery authored a recently released report that was not restrained in its depiction the current state of affairs for U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy …