
While acknowledging the traditions that made the Navy great, Admiral Reason proposes a new way to think about the fleet as a whole, one that discards the "industrial age model" in favor of the "flight deck paradigm" of a high-performance organization operating at the edge of chaos. He then addresses, in general terms and in specifics, the response such an upheaval requires. He begins by describing what the technological, managerial, and social hurricane of the Information Age means for warriors who go to sea. Admiral Reason's topic is the course the United States Navy should steer in the "typhoon of change" characterizing today's and tomorrow's world. This Naval War College Newport paper, Sailing New Seas, presents the ideas of one of the Navy's most senior leaders.
