US Navy – Gathering intelligence on cargo vessel movements in the Arabian sea is a new important task for the US Navy.

• Reuters: USS Peleliu Counts on Snoopy Team for Surveillance

Background – Taliban – Historian John Keegan on the what the fate of the Taliban may be.

• Daily Telegraph: Death may be only way out for ‘Arabs’

Background – Disruptive Technologies – An essay on how the US military can take advantage of disruptive technologies.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Making Room for Risk: Managing Disruptive Technologies