US Marines – The role played by US Marine aviators in Operation Anaconda.

• San Diego Union Tribune: Confidence replaced Marines’ anxiety

US Navy – The USS Harry Truman is overhauled in near-record time.

• Virginian Pilot: Truman repairs done early, under budget
  

Background – Iraq – An excellent essay that details how US foreign policy thinking is evolving in the Bush administration, and how this evolution in thinking will be used to depose Saddam Hussein.

• New Yorker: The Next World Order