Like its name, the independent review co-chaired by former Clinton Army Secretary Togo West and former Chief of Naval Operations VernClark elides the central fact: The murder of twelve servicemen and women and one civilian at Ft.
VernClark, the service invented a smaller, cheaper warship called the Littoral Combat Ship that broke the mold on naval design and acquisition while potentially offering a warfighting system better suited to emerging threats than the legacy vessels already in the fleet.