Same. Try the "books on the Battle of Midway" query on Perplexity. The results are great and include the book mentioned in the article (authored by the Naval Aviator).
I graduated from "Annapolis" (AKA USNA, "The Boat School") in the 70's. My second career was in high-tech here in Silicon Valley.
Let me state the "quiet part" of the Naval Academy's mission out loud: It aspires to train the Services' future admirals and generals. It is not a vocational school, nor is it really a college. It's something else.
It strikes me that the relationship between flag-rank officers and their civilian (political) leaders is fair game.
Having said that, the selection of this speaker is edgy. But it's the timing of the event that I think puts it in the bad-judgement-or-worse category. We used to call this "poor headwork."
My recommendation would have been to postpone the event until next year, and then reexamine the issue more closely. And to do all of the above quietly.
And Paypal stretched banking laws. And Youtube was built on the back of countless music and TV videos under copyright. And Airbnb played/plays free & loose with hoteling laws. And Uber with taxi rules. The list is long, and the excesses are large. Move fast and break things. Become too big to fail. This is nothing new. It is core to technological advancement and capitalist enablement.
I advise new team members to begin their tenure by improving one or two key existing processes. Ideally, make life easier for a couple teammates. Right an age-old wrong within the system.
This provides an efficient way to learn the team, garner respect, and create a platform to do bigger things down the line.
I have seen far more accomplishment using this formula than the blunderbuss "we have to make changes now" approach.