Organizing OPNAV (1970 - 2009)

Published Date: January 1, 2010

Re-organization has been a conspicuous and continual phenomenon in the U.S. Navy’s Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) throughout the period examined in this volume. Some re-organizations have been massive; some have been small; but some degree of organizational churn has been constant. Despite the plethora of re-organizations, large and small, their rationales have exhibited a certain consistency over time. All recent Chiefs of Naval Operations (CNOs) have changed the OPNAV staff organization in some way, to try to achieve their goals. This is the sixteenth volume in the CNA Navy Strategy Series. Click here to view the rest of the volumes in the series.