January 9, 2025 | War on the Rocks
Rewind and Reconnoiter: When Will Guam Become a Priority?
January 9, 2025 | War on the Rocks
Rewind and Reconnoiter: When Will Guam Become a Priority?
Excerpt
“I would not have predicted just how poorly this defense of Guam effort would be executed by the Department of Defense over the past four years. When historians reflect on poor planning and acquisition efforts executed in the last two to three decades, they will be hard pressed to select a case study more egregious than this one. People may point to delayed submarine delivery but at least 1.3 attack submarines are being delivered each year — the defense of Guam has almost nothing new to show.”
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is a senior director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as the executive director for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission and retired as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.