This 1997 book by Gregory Vistica, a reporter for Newsweek, tells of how the Navy brass really operates. Although the book centers around John Lehman, the secretary of Navy under Reagan, and how he
destroyed anyone that stood in his way of a bigger Navy with battleships (useless) and bigger budgets. Tough-sounding flyboys such as Lehman were the darlings of the fanged neocons who littered the
Reagan years, much like they have recently done during the Bush years. A much more sober analysis of the real Soviet threat at the time might have saved billions, much as today, ...
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