US Marines – Aboard the USS Peleliu with the Marines of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit who are now homeward bound from Afghanistan.

• San Diego Union Tribune: A little piece of the war
  

US Navy – The US Navy’s shipbuilding budget is currently inadequate, says CINCLANT.

• Virginian Pilot: Natter sets the tone for battle over more ships
• San Diego Union Tribune: Navy admiral says administration’s shipbuilding budget is inadequate

Royal Navy – How the lessons learned from the Falklands have influenced naval affairs 20 years later.

• Sea Power: A Long Look Back to the Present Day: The Falklands War Revisited

Background – Special Forces – Sir John Keegan believes the way to combat terrorism is not with high tech alone, but with high tech coupled to special forces.

• Daily Telegraph: Bin Laden will be run to earth only in the old-fashioned wa