As Chief of Naval Operations, the late Admiral Mike Boorda was pressed time and again to support a seemingly endless succession of new systems and platforms, each usually promoted by advocates attempting to portray their system in terms of some fashionable but only half-understood conceptual buzzword.
Jurists and scientists frequently pay tribute to the great judges and professors under whom they have studied. Although it is not common practice in the military to treat the commanders under whom one has served in the same fashion, such tribute is particularly warranted in the case of this book and its predecessor.