Background – Open Source Intelligence – The case for open source intelligence in the war against terrorism.

• Time: The New Craft of Intelligence: Making the Most of Open Private Sector Knowledge

Canadian Navy – The Canadian Navy’s role in hunting terrorists in the Arabian Sea.

• National Post: Canada’s warships hunting al-Qaeda
  

US Navy – A cogent and succint summary of the air war to date in Afghanistan and the lessons learned.

• BBC: Analysis: Afghan air power revolution
  

Background – The Ground War – Ralph Peters on why casualties, though regretable, must be acceptable to us if we are to triumph over terrorism.

• Wall Street Journal: In War, Soldiers Die

Background – Iraq – More and more indicators point to a campaign to unseat Saddam Hussein.

• Daily Telegraph: US puts the finishing touches to Saddam war plan

Background – Information Warfare – James F. Dunnigan on why Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are breeding grounds for criminal hackers.

• Strategy Page: Cybercriminals
  

Russian Navy – The Kursk will be scrapped by the end of the year.

• Associated Press: Russia to start dismantling Kursk next month, finish by end of year

Canadian Navy – The Canadian frigate HMCS Charlottetown has returned home from the Arabian Sea.

• Canadian Press: Canadian frigate returns from Arabian Sea

US Navy – Training aboard the USS Winston Churchill.

• Sea Power: Training To the Highest Level

US Air Force – The story of the Combat Controllers on the ground, who call in the air strikes.

• Associated Press: U.S. Combat Controllers Recall Mission

Background – Terrorism – A chilling look at our progress on stopping the next attack.

• Time: Can We Stop the Next Attack?

US Navy – A summary of the accomplishments of the maritime quarantine in the Arabian Sea to date.

• Associated Press: U.S., Coalition Ships Search Vessels

US Navy – The Spruance-class destroyer USS Ray is decommissioned.

• The Herald: Beyond the call of duty

Background – Nuclear Threat – The US is taking the possibility of terrorists having a nuclear weapon quite seriously – a shadow government is now up and running outside of Washington DC.

• Washington Post: Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret

???while the search for such weapons intensifies???

• Washington Post: Fears Prompt U.S. to Beef Up Nuclear Terror Detection

Background – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Air Force: The Little Predator That Could
  

Background – Jihad in the UK – Jihad is being actively preached in the United Kingdom as well as in the US; UK law enforcement agencies again can do little to stop it.

• Washington Post: Radical, Retaliatory and Right There on British Bookshelves

Russian Navy – The Russian Navy’s decomissioned but not yet scrapped extensive fleet of nuclear submarines continues to pose an extreme environmental hazard, but the Russians will not accept outside help in trying to eliminate the problem.

• Associated Press: Old Russian Nuclear Subs Pose Risk

US Coast Guard – Aboard the USS Shamal, a Cyclone-class coastal patrol craft, showing how the US Navy and US Coast Guard are working more closely together in coastal defense.

• Associated Press: Navy, Coast Guard team up

Background – Islam – Thomas Friedman on how the US and Middle Eastern states need to tear down the walls of ignorance and dishonesty between them in order to achieve a lasting victory in the war on terrorism.

• New York Times: Wall of Ideas

Background – Terrorism – An excerpt from a new book that documents the presence and acts of Islamic terrorists within the US and how US law enforement agencies have been unable to address the threat due to legal restrictions on their operations.

• MSNBC: ëAmerican Jihadí – The threat from within the U.S. border

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

US Navy – CINCLANT confirms the US Navy almost ran out of smart weapons in Afghanistan.

• Associated Press: War drained Navy’s equipment, Natter said

US Navy – The USS Theodore Roosevelt finally gets into port.

• Virginian Pilot: TR ends record run at sea

US Marines – US Marines are receiving unique urban combat training in US towns.

• Reuters: Marines to Practice Urban War in Real City