Taiwanese Navy – To placate China, Taiwan cancels an antisubmarine exercise.

• BBC: Taiwan cancels war games

Russian Navy – Russia is beginning naval exercises in the Caspian Sea.

• Radio Free Europe: Russia: Are Moscow’s War Games In Caspian Muscle Flexing?

US Navy – The US Navy is being sued over its deployment of low frequency active sonar.

• CNN: Environmental groups sue over Navy sonar
  

Background – Iraq – Sir John Keegan on why an attack on Iraq must use all available military forces.

• Daily Telegraph: A ‘light’ war won’t work in Iraq
  

Background – Iraq and Wargaming – William Arkin on how a wargame previously covered here, Millennium Challenge 02, is in reality a wargame for testing different strategies to use against Iraq. The overall theme is to demonstrate the capability to conduct “rapid decisive operations” – that is the use of a much wider range of government resources – diplomatic, economic, covert – and the power to employ the most appropriate of those forces to achieve a desired political or military outcome rather than a level of destruction of the enemy.

• Washington Post Dot Mil: Meet Country X –
  An Innovative Pentagon War Game Fine Tunes a U.S. Attack on Iraq