OSSIFIED, LIKE BEFORE PEARL HARBOR: The Navy’s Kuhnian Crisis: The Navy’s Birthday, Paradigm Breakdown, and its impact on the Soul of the Navy. “The post-Cold War paradigm—built on unchallenged sea control, technological supremacy, and the assumption that platforms matter more than integration—is failing. The anomalies are everywhere. . . . These aren’t isolated failures. They’re symptoms of a paradigm that no longer works. The Navy’s operating assumptions—about how to design ships, how to develop technology, how to organize for war—are being falsified by reality and highlighted in an endless number of GAO, CBO and CRS reports. Yet the institution clings to them, because acknowledging paradigm failure means admitting that the entire framework of naval thinking needs rebuilding.”