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