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