US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk carrier battlegroup sets sail from Japan.

• The Daily Yomiuri: Kitty Hawk sets sail for parts unknown

US Navy – The Navy’s four shipyards respond directly and rapidly to the Navy’s needs.

• Sea Power:
  The Lessons Learned–Times Four

Background – War on Terror – More on Hezbollah and the threat it poses to the US.

• New Yorker: Party of God

History – What lessons can be learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam that can be applied to the current crisis with Iraq?

• The Atlantic: A Near Miss
• The Atlantic: The Temptation of War