Commander McGrath is the founding director of Delex Consulting, Studies and Analysis. On active duty, he commanded the USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) from 2004 to 2006; he also led the team that produced the 2007 maritime strategy, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st-Century Seapower, and was its primary author."Jointness is not an end in itself. . . . Apart from combat, it is a rhetorical whip that maintains a politically useful discipline among the services in a time of falling defense budgets." -