Canadian Navy – Aboard Canada’s CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft, on fisheries patrol.

• Comox Valley Record: ‘They know we’re watching them’
  

Royal Marines – John Keegan on the sad fate of the Royal Marine’s commander in Afghanistan – he is being savaged by New Labour’s spin doctors.

• Daily Telegraph: Labour is putting spin before security in Afghanistan
• Daily Telegraph:
  Brigadier put troops before politics

US Navy – Project Minuteman, an attempt by the Office of Naval Research to deploy intelligent, networked sensing agents in battlefield conditions to gather intelligence and carry out attacks.

• Vunet: Navy recruits network of unmanned vehicles
  

Background – Transformation – William Arkin on the poor job the US Secretary of Defense has done on explaining what makes a weapon system transformational and worth funding, and what makes a weapons system non-transformational and not worth funding.

• Washington Post Dot Mil: Icons of the Crusade