US Marines – US Marines see action on the ground in Afghanistan for the first time

• Associated Press: Marines Attack Taliban Convoy

US Navy – Viecques may remain open as a training range indefinitely.

• Virginian Pilot: Vieques range could remain open past 2003
  

US Navy – China has begun harrassing US ELINT flights off China again.

• Washington Times: Inside the Ring

Background – Afghanistan – Sir John Keegan with an analysis of the campaign so far and how far it has to go.

• Daily Telegraph: The Taliban danger has gone, but al-Qa’eda remains