Columbian Navy – Who should own the islands of Providence and San Andres in the western Carribean, which are a key base in the war on drugs – Columbia, Nicaragua, or no one?

• The Guardian: Trouble in paradise

US Navy – The US Navy decides to rehabilitate, rather than reject, problem Sailors.

• Virginian Pilot: Navy school aims to help sailors get their bearings

Taiwanese Navy – Could a Northrup – HDW partnership bring submarines to Taiwan? Meanwhile Taiwan considers carving a new submarine base out of a mountain for its submarines.

• Agence France Presse: Northrop looking for partner in selling submarines to Taiwan
• Taipei Times: Navy planning to build a submarine base in mountain along east coast
  

Royal Navy – al-Queda had plans to attack ships patroling the Straits of Gibraltar.

• BBC: Morocco ‘uncovers al-Qaeda plot’

Royal Australian Navy – Australia and Singapore are conducting exercise Singaroo 702.

• Associated Press: S’pore and Australia launch war games

US Navy – Thomas Ricks on the new US policy of advocating pre-emptive strikes

• Washington Post:
  Bush Developing Military Policy Of Striking First

Background – Caspian Sea – More on the militarization of the Caspian Sea.

• Radio Free Europe: Caspian: ‘Militarization’ Of The Sea — Myth Or Reality