Canadian Navy – The Canadian military is also at the breaking point in terms of too many missions chasing too few sailors and too few ships.

• Sun Media: Our military at the breaking point

U.S. Navy – the U.S. Navy program to install commercial information technologies to help automate some aspects of its ships and reduce manning levels has passed a new milestone on the USS Ticonderoga.

• Janes’ Naval Forces: USN Smartship makes progress