US Navy – Aboard the USS Enterprise’s air group.

• Stars and Stripes: Fighter pilots’ mission: ‘We go
  up and execute democracy’

US Navy – Prototype systems that help shorten sensor to shooter time lags may be deployed to help US forces.

• Jane’s: Prototype technologies could be useful for strikes

Ground War – It was confirmed today that US special forces are on the ground in southern as well as northern Afghanistan.

• Washington Post: Special Forces Open Ground Campaign

Background – Saudia Arabia – This essay paints a disturbing picture of our “allies” the Saudis – a corrupt regime that has bankrolled the fundamentalists who are trying to overthrow it.

• The New Yorker: King’s Ransom

US Air Force – The USAF has for the first time armed its RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with Hellfire antitank missiles. This is truely a revolution in military affairs, and is actually covered in more detail at the end of the above New Yorker article.

• Washington Post: U.S. Arms Unmanned Aircraft