Royal Navy – The current disposition of the Royal Navy as HMS Ark Royal sets sail for exercises in the Mediterranean.

• The Times: British military awaits clarion call
  

US Coast Guard – Aboard the patrol craft USS Typhoon, an illustration of how the Coast Guard is fighting terrorism at sea.

• Associated Press: Terrorism fight hits the high seas
  

US Navy – How network-centric warfare can be conducted under the sea.

• Sea Power: Transforming the Undersea Battlespace.

Background – Pakistan – Arnaud de Borchgrave on why Pakistan is the new Afghanistan, and how Pakistan is still at great risk of descending into chaos.

• Washington Times: The new Afghanistan

Background – Iraq – Thomas Friedman on what will be needed to rebuild Iraq.

• New York Times: Remaking Iraq looks like a tall order

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
  

US Navy – The US is building a naval dockyard and repair facilty in Bitung, Indonesia.

• Jakarta Post: U.S. to build naval docking facility in Bitung
  

Background – The Nation State – A review of four books that evaluate whether the nation state is in decline, and the implications for naval forces.

• Naval War College Review: Is this the end of the nation state?