Chinese Navy – China is looking to buy Slava-class cruisers and Akula-class nuclear attack submarines from Russia.

• Agence France Press: China ‘to buy more advanced Russian warships’

US Navy – The USS Constellation battlegroup deploys to the Gulf.

• San Diego Union Tribune: Carrier Constellation, battle group leave San Diego with possibility of war on horizon

US Navy – The US will create a new military command in the Horn of Africa to pursue terrorists, it will probably be located aboard the command ship USS Mount Whitney.

• Associated Press: Pentagon to start new command in Africa
  

US Navy – More Ro-Ro cargo ships leave the US for destinations unknown???

• Reuters: Massive Military Cargo Ships Leave U.S. Ports – MSC
  

US Marine Corps – Tom Ricks interviews the Commandant of the US Marines.

• Washington Post: Top Marine Takes New Route: Moves On, Not Out of Service

Background – Iraq – David Isby on techniques Iraq might use to pursue asymetric warfare against the US.

• Washington Times: Asymmetric warfare and Iraq

Background – Nonlethal Weapons – The US Navy and Marine Corps are urged to develop more nonlethal weapons.

• Associated Press: Navy, Marines urged to give nonlethal weapon development top priority