Canadian Navy – Are the Upholder-class submarines lemons?

• Daily News: British ‘sold us lemons’ – military analyst – Military experts disagree on subs’ value
  

US Navy – The US will forward-base 3 nuclear attack submarines on Guam.

• Reuters: U.S. attack submarines moving to Guam

US Navy – The USS Ohio begins her conversion to a cruise missile equipped submarine.

• Ohio.com: Nation’s oldest Trident sub trades in nuclear arsenal

Spanish Navy – Necropsies suggest that the whales beached recently in the Canary Islands during a NATO exercise died from ear and brain trauma, possibly from sonar.

• Los Angeles Times: Sonar Tests a Likely Link to Whale Deaths

US Navy – Miscellaneous US Navy aviation news including updates on Osprey testing.

• Sea Power: Osprey Test Program Continues

Background – Iraq – James F. Dunnigan on what the true state of the Iraqi army is.

• StrategyPage: Iraq’s Army Aging Badly

Background – Iraq – William Arkin on how the media is overplaying Iraq’s strengths.

• Washington Post Dot Mil: Return of the Chapstick Syndrome