Craig Hooper Profile
Craig Hooper

@NextNavy

3,775
Followers
2,130
Following
528
Media
17,136
Statuses

Frank national security guidance from Takoma Park, MD. Contractor. Writes in various places. DM for Signal.

Takoma Park, MD
Joined October 2010
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
Me? I'm over in the Bluesky place under @craighooper .bsky.social.
5
0
2
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
Still waiting for somebody to point out no Republican has called for any Cop-killing Seditionists in their districts to surrender to Federal Authorities.
24
499
2K
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
Trump will back out
@Jaden_Reports
Jaden Jefferson
4 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate commission adopts new rules to mute microphones to allow Trump, Biden 2 minutes of uninterrupted time per segment.
39
113
798
47
98
643
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Who knew Admiral @FrankenforIowa would make a competitive race against octogenarian Chuck Grassley—out-raising the old guy and polling within a few percentage points! (Answer: everyone but DC election consultants!)
24
161
620
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
And @twitter it’s time to shut @realDonaldTrump down. He is using your platform to damage Democracy. Do the patriotic thing and shut him down.
14
139
563
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
If you think the Russian invasion of Ukraine is “dragging on,” you either don’t know what war is or you’re being targeted by Russian online influencers. This war has barely begun. It’s the European version of the Iran-Iraq War, and it went on for eight years!!
19
96
519
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
A reminder that the general public initially thought the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings were OK. Awareness of the horrors manifested later
21
197
402
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
Please do not keep Birx.
@adamcancryn
Adam Cancryn
4 years
NEW: As Biden builds his Covid-19 response team, transition officials are grappling with a key question: What to do about DEBORAH BIRX? Latest on the debate over whether to retain Trump’s task force coordinator:
76
17
21
49
47
397
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Just spitballing here, but….What if Russia goes to war in Ukraine and loses?
69
29
316
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
This is the PERFECT time to finally get that Presidential Yacht I have always wanted, for cheap!
9
28
292
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
5 years
It’s amazing how this Administration turns every single misstep into a base-priming experience. It’s never “we messed up”—it’s more of a base energizing “we’re being attacked” approach. Fascinating how well it works.
15
55
243
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
A FEMA "good newser" will run into the @realDonaldTrump boardroom and say "all the hospitals have generator fuel now! Problem solved!!" NOPE. Generators can usually only power tiny parts of a hospital. And..after a week or two the generators are gonna start breaking. What then?
11
93
189
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Increasingly tired, often non-pro boat crews, increasingly frightened and tired evacuees, increasingly tired gear....gonna see more of this
@KPRC2
KPRC 2 Houston
7 years
#BREAKING Crews search for missing after rescue boat carrying 11 capsizes >
Tweet media one
15
128
92
13
140
182
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Too little is done to memorialize the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Events like this deserve highlighting!
@ColinDefense
Colin Clark
7 years
My son is walking Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea next week 75 years after Australians & Papuans beat back Japanese
4
1
13
13
54
184
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
You might hope Puerto Rico will go away. But just wait. Mosquito-borne diseases, amplified by CDC cuts, are gonna be terrible for everybody
12
125
181
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
So it looks like June is gonna be a real fun month, eh?
@W7VOA
Steve Herman
7 years
Significant: @USNavy deploying #CVN68 (USS Nimitz) to Western Pacific, meaning there'll soon be three carrier-led strike forces in region.
44
451
219
23
93
179
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Putin is the key to ending this fiasco of a war quickly. Unless he quits, loses power or otherwise departs the scene, the war will take time. Russian ammo won’t last forever.
14
35
181
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Afghanistan is just a grand-scale Dien Bien Phu
22
35
173
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
@jburnmurdoch @AthertonKD @nytimes They should add blank squares to represent places like Washington DC and Puerto Rico and Guam etc etc that effectively have zero representation too. Then it would be perfect.
3
7
182
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Has anybody anywhere in the US government discussed the regional environmental and health impact of a Pacific nuclear detonation?
30
97
167
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
@paulkrugman Deplatforming works.
6
5
166
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
Russia has hit more than 30% of Ukraine's M-777s, and about 20% of their KRAB And M-109 Howitzers. Here's why:
27
36
154
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
The last seconds of the video, where Putin is just left standing, alone, by the side of the road... Priceless. @MalcolmNance @jmvasquez1974
@NOELreports
NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
1 year
"Take care, dear friend." This is how Putin and Xi say goodbye after a two day visit to Moscow.
375
116
1K
13
27
148
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
I can't see why @realDonaldTrump doesn't convert his Obamacare defeat into a partial win by jettisoning compromised Tom "flyboy" Prince. Didn't the President say he was gonna fire Prince if the first healthcare repeal failed?
9
38
124
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
Hey let’s blow up an alliance
@New_Narrative
Mike Walker
6 years
Trump says to stop 'expensive', 'provocative' South Korea war games
Tweet media one
1
6
0
10
28
123
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
If you are serious about defending your country from invasion, you have to be ready to destroy key transportation features and other infrastructure
5
23
117
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
5 years
Spencer was due to go, but rather than for fire him and let the media focus on big, real, nonpartisan issues that made Spencer redundant, the Administration found a hyper-political issue for Spence to go die upon. via @forbes
3
35
98
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
11 months
If you think the Coast Guard's Pacific-based FRC cutters are cool, then you need to embrace their logistical backup--local dry docks and other "boring" bits of harbor infrastructure. cc: @DepSecDef @USCG @uscoastguard @ComdtUSCG @SecMayorkas @SECNAV
8
14
108
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
We shouldn’t be stopping there often anyway and I hear Taipei is nice this time of year too.
@paulwsj
Paul Beckett
6 years
Latest sign of rising U.S.-China tensions: Beijing denies the USS Wasp a Hong Kong visit and cuts short a top Chinese admiral’s U.S. trip via @WSJ
4
17
7
4
45
94
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
@MegKinnardAP @jonostrower The IAEA should have been far more aggressive about this risk—which I was writing about in December.
5
37
92
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
@peskyteske 1. Having a relative of a victim up there was cold, gross and off-putting. 2. I wouldn't trust Davenport FD to handle complex emergencies. They need training. 3. No mention of ANY investigation into the cause--given that they're assuming fatalities--is very strange.
3
2
91
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
@maxseddon The Table is getting longer
0
2
86
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
9 months
@PullmanPolice I get it, but this IS a little much, right? The @PullmanPolice can only muster three shifts of seven officers, a sergeant and, maybe some higher-level folks. And then, well, doesn't the Pullman Police Department have uniforms? Why pose in such a menacing fashion? Weird PD.
0
4
93
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
8 months
Live look at the U.S. Coast Guard watching the U.S. Navy grapple with the politics of civilian shipping.
1
13
91
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Kind of a big deal
@usnavykorea
US Navy Korea
7 years
USS Stethem is moments away from becoming the first #USNavy ship to visit Jeju Naval Base since the facility opened in February 2016.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
0
13
13
1
36
81
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
5 years
For the umpteenth time get the damn nukes out
@axios
Axios
5 years
The U.S. removed Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program on Wednesday, escalating a months-long standoff over Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems, @AdhamSahloul writes for Expert Voices.
2
11
15
1
23
84
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Ugh Dry dock pics of Fitz hull are going to be horrifying
@CavasShips
Chris Cavas
7 years
#Containership #ACX CRYSTAL hit #destroyer FITZGERALD with her port bow, relatively minor damage
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
12
86
35
5
43
73
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
Japan’s sub fleet can grow to 30, filling in for America’s shrinking sub fleet and demonstrating Japanese commitment to a free Pacific via @forbes
3
24
70
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
The latest USS Connecticut statement shows the U.S. Navy is rotting from the inside. via @forbes
13
22
79
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
Get ready for a world full of militarized Chinese cruise ships! @tshugart3
24
31
80
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Up next, a nuke test. Count on it.
7
38
67
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
8 months
WE BREAK: Structural Cracks Ground All U.S. Coast Guard C-27J Spartan Patrol Aircraft via @forbes CC: @USCG @ComdtUSCG @LDO_Aircraft @SecMayorkas @AirbusDefence @LockheedMartin @INDOPACOM @Southcom
10
31
79
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Many are seamanship or command/control issues where the crew lost situational awareness. Time for a community-wide look at seamanship in USN
10
22
68
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
There’s HMS Trenchant!
@NavyLookout
Navy Lookout
6 years
First images of HMS Trenchant surfacing in the Arctic in the last few days during #ICEX2018 with US Navy Via @JosephHDempsey
14
124
282
4
16
67
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Would have been nice if lazy @dscc visioneers—who don’t understand “fly over” country—had realized Mike Franken’s appeal back when the Admiral ran against an underperforming Joni Ernst!
4
8
68
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
11 months
Amused that @TTuberville has, with his single mis-informed culture war quote, done more to advance naval interest in poetry than any Naval Academy literature professor since, oh, probably forever.
1
12
69
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Internecine Knife Fights Are Killing The U.S. Navy And American Maritime
7
24
64
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
0
0
56
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
0
0
56
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
@christinawilkie Heard similar-sounding rumors of dismissive, imperious and downright petty treatment coming from Betsy DeVose's security detail too
3
10
45
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
If it takes a pandemic, a presidential campaign and a swing-state shipyard to get @USNavy hospital ships procured, then the time is now and Philly Shipyard is the place:
12
16
46
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
Don’t underestimate Elon’s Navy—10 manned/unmanned ships with two floating platforms on the way…
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
3 years
Autonomous SpaceX droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas
5K
13K
132K
6
10
54
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
Much respect to @maphumanintent for pushing everybody to address base encroachment and suspect foreign investments near fence-lines. Lot more to do, though:
2
9
52
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
8 years
A teeny tiny media company lets 50 employees go, and NY Times covers it. But a shipyard lays off 500 there's nada. Zilch. Zero. Priorities!
@nytimes
The New York Times
8 years
Medium laid off 50 employees — a third of its staff — as part of a larger redefinition of its business model
11
60
80
3
39
49
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
@JulieZebrak @POTUS Watched him speak, crack jokes and rally everyone in killing heat during some change of command someplace, and...came away very disappointed by the White House Press Corps. Biden was so much more engaged and engaging than he is oft-portrayed by the folks who cover him.
2
9
50
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Um…there are two Turkish military aircraft on the ground at Kiev. If they kill Turks, this becomes a NATO issue
5
11
49
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
In October 1950, when the US had seven minesweepers available, North Korean fishing boats laid some 3000 mines in 400 square miles of ocean.
4
26
44
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
@alexbward The first law of providing targeting intelligence to your friends is you do not talk about providing targeting intelligence to your friends.
1
0
44
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
@IndoPac_Info Wow. I’m sorry to see you leave angry. Thanks for contributing all that you did—you were always a reliable and interesting presence that Twitter more fun. So…What…happened? I don’t understand the shadowban issue.
1
6
42
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
Just sitting here, waiting for Navy to release photos of USS Connecticut (SSN 22)
1
3
45
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
32 years and nobody double-checked…anything? Nobody in the submarine procurement community verified results?!? For the steel!?!?
6
13
42
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
11 months
@johnkonrad Whispers quietly...same thing with trained nurses, construction workers and other fields. Many interesting parts of the world runs on labor from the Philippines
1
2
42
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
This Corbyn guy...ugh
9
17
34
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
5 years
While other things capture the headlines, the @Australian_Navy is quietly conducting a mini-Dunkirk as bushfires push citizens onto beaches and wharves: via @forbes
2
21
37
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
10 months
Let's all pour one out for everybody on Guam who got their alarm at the cheery hour of 4:18 AM.
3
6
39
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
@shannonrwatts @united Oh, but swimwear is OK, right? Bad call United
0
8
31
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
And, with that, let us all welcome future Huntington Ingalls Board Member James Mattis to a long and healthy life in the private sector
@JustinSKatz
Justin Katz
6 years
BREAKING: @RepJoeCourtney tells me that DOD notified Congress today it WILL pursue a two-ship buy approach for CVN-80 and 81! Navy is projecting $4 billion in savings. That is $1.5 billion more than initial estimates. I have it first for @InsideDefense
5
9
13
5
11
31
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
@StrangestTrip86 Why do these people get special treatment when violating the law @GovLarryHogan Arrest them all!
2
4
31
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
One hopes that there are other, more subtle tools in play here (that, ahem, aren't being discussed), but if some DoS vandalism is all we can do here, then I have real questions about American cyber capes
3
15
30
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
6 years
Broke Bear ain’t so big
@SeapowerSeries
ISPK | Dept. for Maritime Strategy & Security 🔱
6 years
The Russian Navy has to train - and catch up on - anti-submarine warfare." Sebastian Bruns quoted in "Leinen Los", the monthly magazine of @dmb_ev .
Tweet media one
1
5
8
0
12
28
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
8 years
The faster we excise the word "homeland" from national security dialogue, the better.
2
13
27
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
@SkinnerPm Thanks for doing what you do! Your feed has been a delight. Thanks and hope we get to keep catching up on your slice of the Georgia coast!
0
0
30
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Live look at the underfunded Coast Guard, quietly managing eleven missions, oft sailing in many decades-old ships, and going to sea more than 200 days a year while still keeping their vessels relatively rust-free:
Tweet media one
4
9
33
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Amazing that Navy can screw up entire programs, lose a key ship to a fire, mismanage fuel depot, poisoning service members and a key island relationship, and crash an irreplaceable sub with no active Flag Officer consequences, while Army beats up a Flag for nothing.
@halbritz
Haley Britzky
2 years
Reminder that allegations of toxic leadership were unsubstantiated. Direct quote from the IG report, which I obtained: "The preponderance of credible evidence indicated that the allegation MG Donahoe exhibited toxic and counter-productive leadership … was not substantiated.”
26
62
517
2
8
29
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
10 years
If Putin's logic holds and ethnicity defines one's State....that means much of Russia's vast eastern territory...is...part of China, then?
9
54
28
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Right now, America could really use a Navy Secretary who hasn’t served in the Navy.
5
3
30
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
11 months
The epic World War II era strike on St. Nazaire--a template for Ukraine's dry dock strike: @forbes
2
11
30
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
Who says America doesn't build non-nuclear subs anymore?!?!
@BoeingDefense
Boeing Defense
7 years
Boeing Phantom Works looks beyond aircraft via @MarcusReports + @DefenseOne
Tweet media one
1
31
63
2
27
26
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
@StevenBeynon American taxpayers give that state $3.2 billion in DOD payroll alone. 14% of that goes to @OKGuard . On Monday, crush the AG and start stripping the state of Guard assets, then, by Friday, announce the impending drawdown of units at a base or mothball an ammo plant line or two.
2
4
28
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
@AntonioFrench Or help Jimmy build a Habitat For Humanity house or show up for his Sunday School or
2
5
25
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
@RepHoulahan @NATOSource We don’t have time for silly proposals. It might be better to offer A-10s to the Baltic States, Poland or other threatened states—who can train and establish the infrastructure to employ these platforms. Might be useful to crash-develop systems to make basic Cessnas useful though
2
2
25
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
11 months
When global peace increasingly rests on the comportment of crew aboard jostling small ships in the South China Seas, is it the right time for the @USNavy to entirely abandon small ship platforms? CC: @DepSecDef @SECNAV @ComdtUSCG @USCG
4
15
28
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
RIMPAC: Fire discussion! Of the U.S. ships participating, I’d fear a fire aboard DDG-1001. Prospect of fire aboard a big, minimally manned ship full of overworked crew, coupled with a composite deckhouse/hangar scares the bejesus out of me.
10
7
26
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
11 months
Hey @SecDef Want a new naval shipyard? Look to the gritty industrial parts of the San Joaquin/Sacramento River waterfront! via @forbes CC @RepGaramendi @DepSecDef @NAVSEA
7
9
28
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
7 years
😬
@Defence_blog
Defence Blog
7 years
South Korea’s nuclear reactors unable to withstand military attacks
Tweet media one
0
18
7
5
24
24
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
If they mighty Russians are asking Kazakhstan for aid, then…something ain’t right
@NBCNews
NBC News
2 years
Kazakhstan, one of Russia's closest allies and a southern neighbor, is denying a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine, officials say.
363
5K
17K
3
2
26
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
If you think #AUKUS is cool, just wait for #China 's response--a proposal to trade Russian sub tech for Chinese military aid. #PLA #PLAN #Navy #Indopacific #FreeandopenIndoPacific #submarine #Submarines #SSN #SSBN #Ukraine #ukrainewar
6
15
27
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Hey @SecDef and @DepSecDef after the reports on the Red Hill fiasco and the turf battles over the burning Bonhomme Richard and the debacle over the SSN 22 deployment, you guys need to do something. You don’t need a report or a study to force accountability on Navy leadership.
5
5
25
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
3 years
@iAmTheWarax @cdrsalamander Hey, it takes real talent to rust-stain a composite deckhouse.
1
1
25
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
1 year
Why does America have 60-year old crane ships?
@US_TRANSCOM
USTRANSCOM
1 year
Ship to shore.⚓ @USArmy Soldiers construct a causeway from the MV Fisher for JLOTS during Talisman Sabre, allowing U.S. strategic sealift ships to discharge through inadequate or damaged ports or over a bare beach. #TogetherWeDeliver | @INDOPACOM | @USARPAC | @DOTMARAD
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
4
22
53
11
6
27
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
4 years
@Mhowell003 @GovLarryHogan @WTOP Why do right wing lawbreakers get special treatment all the time? It’s time to put our foot down arrest these performance artists. They are endangering our State. Enough is enough @GovLarryHogan Arrest them all.
1
3
24
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
9 months
Brutal but necessary: Personnel Shortage At U.S. Coast Guard Sinks 10 Cutters, 29 Boat Stations via @forbes
7
12
25
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
Well this is interesting
@noahbarkin
Noah Barkin
2 years
China's foreign minister Wang Yi tells #MSC2022 that the sovereignty, independence & territorial integrity of every country should be safeguarded. "Ukraine is no exception," he says
Tweet media one
495
2K
6K
2
7
23
@NextNavy
Craig Hooper
2 years
QUICKSINK Is going to shake things up in the Pacific:
6
5
26