Indian Navy – An Indian task force is making a port call in Singapore.

• The Straits Times: Three Indian navy ships here on visit

US Navy – The cockpit design of the Joint Strike Fighter is being fine-tuned.

• Aviation Week: F-35 Cockpit Targets Information Integration

US Coast Guard – The new Coast Guard commandant focuses on Readiness, People, Stewardship.

• Sea Power: Charting a New Course for the 21st Century

Background – Alliances – David Isby on why the alliances are key to the US’s success in the war on terrorism, and why we must do more to form them and aid them.

• Washington Times: Brothers in Arms