Commander Crooks is a surface warfare officer. He commanded the USS Halsey (DDG-97) from 2019 to 2021 and now facilitates the Prospective Commanding Officer Course at Surface Warfare Schools Command in Newport, Rhode Island. He is indebted to Commander Le Andra Kissinger, Captain Andrew Roy, Royal Navy Commander Ian Danbury, and his students and fellow instructors for their discussion and ideas that inform much of this article.
