Lloyd Daub
2009-01-10 16:12:46
From reading John B. Lundstrom’s “Black Shoe Carrier Admiral” is seems pretty clear that there simply was no other flag officer except Chester Nimitz to choose for the job. The Navy had been on a war footing in the Atlantic and it was already clear that most of the possible replacements for Admiral Kimmel were in bigger jobs already or proven incapable of it. The younger admirals were just that– younger, and unproven.
President-elect Obama has many many more choices, of proven quality, to pick from. Instead, he picked just another Clintonista. Or maybe that explains it all right there.
