Dear Virginia-class Program Office: Get yer story straight

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RECENT REVIEWS:

A stakeholder on "Running on empty":

"...Dr. Hooper has masterfully articulated a Fleet-wide concern that sometimes gets little attention when considering the Navy's overall shipbuilding strategy...Like many of us who began our careers in the Cold War era, when the oilers were always guaranteed to be on station when needed, it is easy to take them for granted. So Dr. Hooper's analysis and apprehension should serve as a wake-up call to Fleet planners...Dr. Hooper has enlightened us, and we should heed the call..."

-CAPT Stephen J. Coughlin, USN
Nov 2010 USNI Proceedings

Feedback regarding "Don’t hate San Francisco! Engage, don’t estrange":

"...I live in the Marina District of San Francisco. Whenever I go for a run around the neighborhood, past the USS San Francisco or Lone Sailor memorials and the old degaussing range building on the Marina Green, I can't help but think of what Dr. Hooper points out-like it or not, this is a Navy town. Dr. Hooper is absolutely right when he says the Navy must engage the city..."

-LT David S Coles, USN
Jan 2008 USNI Proceedings

Recent Publications

"The U.S. Needs a New Public Shipyard," DefenseOne, January 16, 2019.

"It took Comfort 39 Days to Get Pierside in Puerto Rico: That's a National Security Problem," DefenseOne, November 6, 2017.

"Marine National Monuments are Defense Assets," DefenseOne, September 19, 2017.

"Restoring American Seapower: A New Fleet Architecture for the U.S. Navy," Center For Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2017.

"The real game-changers of the Pacific Basin," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, April 2011; 137

"China at sea," Hoover Digest, March 2011; 2.

"Running on empty,"Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, October 2010; 136: 60-65.

"Nobody asked me, but...the Olympia needs our help," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, July 2010; 136: 10-11.

"'Get off the fainting couch': Stop worrying and start managing the Chinese ASBM threat," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, April 2010; 136: 42-47.

"Ospreys mean less at home," The North County Times/The Californian, January 3, 2010.

"America’s fading legacy in the Pacific," The Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2009.

"Preparing for the next big quake," The Berkeley Daily Planet, April 30-May 6, 2009; 11(5); Page 13.

"The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle: A poster child for next-war-it is?," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, November 2008; 134: 22-26.

"To win hearts and minds, give Coast Guard new hospital ships," National Defense Magazine, November 2008; 93: 28. With James Doblow

"Don’t hate San Francisco! Engage, don’t estrange," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. October 2007; 133: 64-68.

"Going down with the ships," The Washington Post, March 5, 2007.

""LCS: A step, not an end - correspondence," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. February 2007; 133: 6-7.

"Communicable Disease Control in California," White Paper for 2007 California Health Strategy Summit. With R.J. Melton and G. Rutherford.

"The peril of power: Navigating natural gas infrastructure," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. June 2006; 132: 40-44.

"Emerging issues in natural gas security: Does perception management mask reality?," In Proceedings of Environment Canada’s 29^th Arctic and Marine Oilspill (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa 2006: 517-524.

"Protein engineering: Security implications: The increasing ability to manipulate protein toxins for hostile purposes has prompted calls for regulation," EMBO Reports June 2006; 7: S14-17. With J. Tucker.

"A Gunboat Navy for the 21st Century—correspondence," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute December 2005; 131: 64-65.

"Biology on the battlefield: Rethinking the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention," The Yale Politic. December 29, 2005.

"The mosquito can be more dangerous than the mortar round: The obligations of command," Naval War College Review, Winter 2005: LVIII, Vol. 1. 77-87. With Arthur M. Smith.

"Building a fleet for coastal rescue," The Boston Globe, January 4, 2005.

"Harbor Safety," The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, October 12, 2003.

"Projecting biomedical security," Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute July 2003; 129: 63-66.

"Strategic biodefense: A call to reinvent the hospital ship," Navy Medicine March-April 2002; 93: 31-35.

"Poxvirus Dilemmas—correspondence," New England Journal of Medicine 1998; 339: 2027-2028.

"Think Small," Foreign Affairs 1998; 77 (3): 158. Letter.