Israeli Navy – More information on Israel’s Dolphin-class submarines.

• Jerusalem Post: ‘China Times’: US offers Taiwan Israeli-designed subs

US Navy – The USS Abraham Lincoln battlegroup is deploying to the Pacific, it will be the first operational deployment of the F/A-18E Hornet.

• Seattle Post Intelligencer: 3,700 sailors heading out of Puget Sound

German Navy – The German Navy helped to recover a ship that had been hijacked by Somali pirates.

• Independent Online: Germans make Somali pirates walk the plank
  

French Navy – France captured two al-Qaida suspects in the Persian Gulf.

• Associated Press: French Navy nabs 2 al-Qaida suspects
  

Background – 4th Generation Warfare – A review of how the US is conducting operations in Afghanistan against an enemy using 4th Generation Warfare.

• Defense and the National Interest: Military Response to Fourth Generation Warfare in Afghanistan