US Navy – Training aboard the USS Constellation.

• The Times: War games prepare crew for Iraq action

Merchant Marine – Cunard and P&O cruise lines are taking antiterrorist precautions seriously.

• Sunday Mirror: Gurkha & SBS Guard on Our Cruise Liners

Background – War on Terror – William Arkin on how the war on terror is moving into the shadows.

• Los Angeles Times: The Secret War – Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically expanding its “black world” of covert operations
  

Background – Readiness – Just how underfunded and underprepared were US forces by the end of the Clinton administration?

• Naval War College Review: Are US Forces Unprepared and Underfunded?