TNT’s newest drama, The Last Ship, has drawn me in over the past few weeks, and as the story unfolds, it has become a weekly lesson in crisis management and communications. Based on the novel by William Brinkley, The Last Ship is a compelling chronicle of the USS Nathan James, a U.S. navy warship sent on a top-secret, radio-silent mission in the arctic with a team of epidemiologists. When the mission ends, and the ship is ready to head home, the captain and crew learn that in their absence, a...