I know of no other USNA professors. Certainly a way to get your name "out there" is to continuously bash your employer. Fleming knows his "proposal" isn't realistic. He knows Salon isn't the forum to get the attention of policy makers in D.C.
He's provided no citations, no budgets, no proposals with an kind of structure, not path toward anything on the subject. Salon.com isn't a journal. It isn't about policy or budgets or the military or anything. This isn't peer-review. He isn't penning some great work. This isn't a professional endevour by a tenured Ph.D.
So what is it?
He had an article published online, on a site not known for its objectivity. He's rehashing the same old stuff (some of it looked word-for-word like another article). There's nothing new. He just added "after the elections." Boom.... new article.
But why?
To get his name out there. So we would talk about him. Because even in a rag of a website, someone was going to copy and paste that link in an email, or on SAF, and we would talk abou thim. We would legitimize the poor, opinion-based article. The name "Fleming" would make the rounds again.
There's nothing new here. Eventually, if it hasn't already, this article will fade from memory too, and in a few months Fleming will try to reignite it... fan the flames.