This Is What Happens ...

 ... when you are a credentialed humanities brainwashed idiot who teaches in the US Naval War College, which prepares officers for the US Navy which still cannot grasp what had happened to it.

The whole notion that you can teach "strategery" without serious military background, and especially so in terms of weapon systems integration and C4ISR is risible. Sarah Paine wouldn't understand any of it, because REAL technological dimension of war of the 21st century requires everything what she doesn't have--a hard knowledge and professional analytical apparatus. When you don't have any--you immediately begin exploiting old and beaten to death clichés about maritime trade and getting back to navalism of Mahan. She obviously never read legendary Chester Nimitz' admission in 1946 at Senate's hearing about the role of the navies. 

Obviously, Sarah Paine doesn't understand modern economy, nor does she understand the backgrounds of the two humiliating defeats of the US Navy at the two critical choke points (Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb) by Houthis and Iran. And these are not primary naval powers. She also has no clue about modern naval warfare, be that surface or submarine, or, for that matter, what tactical-technical parameters of weapon systems are and how they translate into the operational and strategic realities. She simply doesn't have the tool kit--so, that means she is very qualified to teach to the "finest fighting force in history", which loses all of its wars. She is an Exhibit A of a product of the US degree mills, where they prepare demagogues. Just a reminder, again ...

This is for geographically and tactically challenged--this is the area (in this case Atlantic) a single carrier of 3M22 Zircon and P-800 Oniks controls in a salvo scenario. Don't tell her about Search Theory, Probability Densities Maps and other shit like that--she wouldn't even grasp the significance. COFM, you know.