Pakistani Navy – Pakistan is interested in exporting Agosta-class submarines, now that it has learned how to build them.

• BBC: Pakistan ready to build submarines

US Navy – What the US Navy of 2020 could look like???according to participants at a conference sponsored by the Office for Naval Research.

• UPI: Navy 2020: Lasers, maglev, agile vaccines
  

US Navy – The Military Sealift Command is chartering sealift to take arms to the Middle East.

• Reuters: U.S. Navy Retracts Denial of Arms Shipment to Gulf

Royal Navy – The cargo ship hijacked off Somali is now said to be North Korean, rather than British.

• Agence France-Presse: Pirates seek $1.8m for ship, crew

Background – Iran – An excellent essay by a Naval War College professor, with many insights into the current state of Iran and Iranians after a visit there in 2001.

• Naval War College Review: Letter From Iran