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

Spanish Navy – More on the Spanish tracking of tankers that are suspected to be unsafe off the Spanish coast.

• BBC: Spain tracks expelled tanker

US Marines – The US is considering using an enlarged version of the Wasp-class helicopter carrier as its sea basing platform.

• Virginian Pilot: Navy tilting toward enlargement of Wasp-class ships for sea bases
  

Iraqi Navy – What threats does Iraq pose to the US Navy in the Gulf?

• Virginian Pilot: Iraq poses a range of threats to the U.S. Navy

US Navy – The commander of a US attack submarine that collided with a civilian tanker in the Mediterranean last month has been relieved of his command.

• Virginian Pilot: Spain tracks expelled tanker
  

History – I don’t normally point out obituaries, but Captain Beach *was* the US Navy to many people. We are in his debt for explaining the naval life to so many people.

• The Times: Captain Ned Beach
  

US Marines – Another in a series of articles on life in the Marine Corps today.

• Washington Post: The Sept. 11 Marines –
  Facing ‘a New Age of War’

Background – Journalism – A report from inside the US military’s boot camp for journalists.

• San Diego Union Tribune: Pentagon taught journalists some gut-wrenching lessons

US Navy – Life aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

• BBC: Warship: Ready for action
  

US Navy – The US in increasing its mine countermeasures force in the Gulf.

• Los Angeles Times: Navy Faces a Terrorist Minefield in Persian Gulf
  

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US Marines – US Marines from the 4th MEU are exercising with Kenyan troops.

• Associated Press: Kenya, U.S. Conduct Military Exercises

Indian Navy – Should India purchase the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov?

• Daily Times: Beyond Admiral Gorshkov
  

French Navy – France is escorting old tankers out of its coastal waters, in an attempt to prevent environmental damage???as are Spain and Portugal

• BBC: France intercepts oil tanker
• Reuters: Spain, Portugal order oil tanker out to sea

Background – War on Terror – The military historian Sir Michael Howard on the road the US should take in the war on terror.

• Naval War College Review: 9/11 and After

Background – Information Warfare – A detailed look at the newest revision of the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft, which is responsible for helping to compress the sensor-shooter loop significantly.

• Aviation Week: Storied Rivet Joint Adds New Missions

Background – Iraq – James F. Dunnigan reviews the last invasion of Iraq, in 1941, by the British.

• StrategyPage: The Last Time (1941) Iraq Was Invaded