Royal Australian Navy – Australia continues to assist in blockading Iraq.

• ABC: Australian navy continues to enforce gulf blockade in Iraq

Royal Navy – The Royal Navy is dangerously short of ships to deploy to the Gulf, if so required.

• Daily Telegraph: Half of Britain’s warships in dock
• UPI: Analysis: Britain’s Navy shrinks too far

US Navy – More on the report that acuses the Navy of not having a clear plan for the future of its carrier fleet???

• Aviation Week: Report Endorses Carrier Design, But Sends Navy To Drawing Board
• Washington Times: Pentagon agrees to Navy’s new generation of carriers

US Navy – The Second Fleet commander stresses that training determines outcomes of wars.

• Sea Power: Training for Tomorrow’s Battles