Thomas B. Modly

In April of 2020 on my final day in office as the Acting Secretary of the Navy I formally named the new class of American frigate warships the “Agility Class.” The first ship of the class was to be called the “USS Agility” as an…

I vividly recall walking through the corridors of Saddam Hussein’s palace in the Green Zone in Baghdad in 2006. I was there as part of a team helping to develop a strategy to reinvigorate Iraqi businesses that had been decimated…