Russian Navy – The Russian military will be cut in size by one third by 2003, with the Russian Navy being reduced in size by 50,000 personnel.

• CNN: Russia to cut military by a third

Russian Navy – A German journalist claims in an article in the Berliner Zeitung Daily that a guided missile from a Russian warship sank the Kursk. The Russian’s deny the story.

• BBC News: Kursk own-goal theory ‘totally false’
• ABC News: Russia denies missile hit sub

U.S. Military – A cogent discussion of why morale is low in the U.S. military.

• Christian Science Monitor: Low morale saps US miltiary might