Biden makes the wrong choice for new chief of naval operations


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President Joe Biden has made the wrong choice in nominating Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the next chief of naval operations. Franchetti has a distinguished naval career centered on Europe and planning and foreign liaison. But the next head of the Navy, the choice recommended to Biden by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, should have been Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Sam Paparo. It's China, stupid. WHO WAS THE REAL J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER? More specifically, it's China's very significant threat to Taiwan and to U.S. treaty allies such as the Philippines and Japan, as well as the nation's associated need for a...