I’m back from an excellent meeting in Germany. I hope to do a full update / catch-up on Thursday or Friday, but here are 2 stories to get us going again???

U.S. Navy – How the USS Cole disaster should have been avoided???

• Washington Post – William Arkin: Why Americans died in Yemen

Russian Navy – Russian and Norwegian divers are attempting to retrieve the Russian sailors’ bodies from the Kursk.

• BBC News: Divers cut hole in Kursk