Exit Interview with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus
Ray Mabus, the third longest serving Navy secretary after Josephus Daniels and Gideon Welles, discusses priorities for the incoming administration, his budget battle with Defense Secretary Ash Carter, the need for a larger fleet, reforms to the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols legislation, naming new ships, and how the force has changed since 1969 in a three-part interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.