There is no room to retain capabilities for sentimental reasons that don't respond to future requirements. We can't afford the cost of irrelevance. Your task will be to identify optimum solutions for our future force structure. Solutions that are affordable, maintain a credible military capability, are adaptable to a changing technological, doctrinal and security environment, and do not foreclose our ability to enhance our capabilities should the need arise. And let us not forget.
Optimum solutions imply trade-offs.
Master these forces, and turn them to our advantage. But you will also inherit a coherent strategic plan to do just that.