Japanese Coast Guard – Japan is forming an organization of volunteer coastwatchers to look for environmental accidents, suspicious incidents and terrorists.
- Daily Yomiuri: 100,000 volunteers to watch coast
History – Beira patrol – A review of Britain’s naval blockade of the newly independent state of Rhodesia from 1966-1975, and what lessons may be drawn from it for current and future UN naval blockade operations.
- Naval War College Review: The Beira Patrol: Britainís Broken Blockade against Rhodesia
Background – War on Terrorism – Why the war on terror is lagging behind in South-East Asia.
- Economist: The elusive enemy