Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan is developing its own antiship cruise missiles.

• Associated Press: Taiwan developing cruise missiles says report
  

US Navy – The US is not building a shipyard in Indonesia after all???

• The Strait Times: US plan for naval dock in Sulawesi dismissed

US Navy – The USS Wasp amphibious ready group has returned from the Gulf.

• Virginian Pilot: Wasp group returns home from war duty
  

US Coast Guard – In the Arctic aboard the icebreak Healy.

• Associated Press: Arctic mission measures signs of climate change
  

• USA Today: Scientists struggle to learn Arctic Ocean’s Secrets

Background – Iraq – William Arkin on how “effects based” targeting may be used against Iraq to topple Saddam, in a similar way to how it was used in Yugoslavia to topple Milosevic.

• Los Angeles Times: Mapping the Minds in Iraq’s Regime