Canadian Navy – A Canadian submarine crew – mutinies?

• Daily News: ‘Oh no, we’re not’
  Fearing for their safety, submarine crew refuses to put to sea

US Navy – The USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George Washington are the two carrier battlegroups currently in the Gulf, the USS George Washington will be replaced (or suplemented) by the USS Harry Truman battlegroup in November. Meanwhile, rumors have begun that the attack will begin in November???

• Associated Press: U.S. Forces Building Up Around Iraq
• The Sunday Times: Strike Date Set For November 28, US Sources Say

History – Did the British Admiralty play a role in undermining British seapower after World War I?

• Naval War College Review: Another Look at History

Background – Iraq – An excellent overview, by James Fallows, of what would await the US in a post-Saddam Iraq. Call this the pessimist’s view???Recommended video rental: The Three Kings

• The Atlantic: The Fifty-first State?