Background – Strategy – John Keegan gives an insightful analysis of the war’s progress to date.
- Daily Telegraph: This is not Vietnam – the allies are well on the way to victory
Background – Secretary of Defense – Seymour Hersch on the battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.
- The New Yorker: Offense and Defense
Sri Lankan Navy – Rebels attack a Sri Lankan Navy boat.
- Associated Press: Sri Lankan Rebels Attack Navy Ship
Royal Australian Navy – Australia is scaling down its prescence in the Gulf.
- Australian Associated Press: Suicide boats ‘major threat’ to Australian ships
- Associated Press: Australia to Scale Down Presence in Gulf
US Navy – In the field with the Navy’s new forward resuscitative surgical systems.
- Associated Press: Navy Surgeons Fight For ‘Golden Hour’
Royal Marines – With the Royal Marines participating in Operation James, outside Basra.
- The Mirror: A Day in My Life With 40 Commando
- Daily Telegraph: Royal Marines storm Basra suburb
- BBC: UK marines push on Basra
US Marines – With the Marines gathering outside Baghdad.
- New York Times: Marines Move Into ‘Bad Guy’ Land
US Marines – Marine Corps gears up for 21st-century special operations missions.
- SeaPower: The USMC-SOCOM Connection