US Navy – The USS Truman battlegroup departs for the Gulf.

• Virginian Pilot: History repeats itself with deployment

Venezuelan Navy – Venezuela is using its navy to keep its oil industry afloat during a nation-wide general strike.

• Associated Press: Chavez Sends Navy Ship to Reclaim Tanker
  

Royal Navy – HMS Nottingham will be repaired, after running aground off of Australia.

• The Times: Collision warship to be repaired for £26m
  

US Marines – More details of Exercise Edged Mallet in Kenya.

• Associated Press: Marines in Kenya Are Kept From Projects
  

• BBC: Kenya joins US in terror war games
  

Russian Navy – The Russian port of Murmansk is evolving from a military to a commercial port.

• Reuters: Russia Arctic naval base seeks US oil mission

Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan will send an Aegis-equipped destroyer to the Gulf, for the first time.

• The Asahi Shimbun: Koizumi OKs Aegis dispatch

Background – Man Portable Surface to Air Missiles – James F. Dunnigan on why downing an airliner with a SA-7 is harder than it looks.

• StrategyPage: Three Decades of Missiles versus Airliners