Royal Navy – England performs a drug bust in the Mid-Atlantic.

• The Times: Navy raid torpedoes Atlantic drugs gang

US Marines – Marine Corps doctrine for attack helicopter close air support (CAS) is not responsive to the needs of the ground commander and should be revised.

• Marine Corps Gazette: A Tale of Two (Close Air Support) Missions

Background – Embedding – William Arkin shows the true value of the embedded journalists.

• Los Angeles Times: Good News From the Front

Background – Seymour Hersh – I enjoying Seymour Hersh’s work as I consider it to be interesting and well written. Here is a fascinating analysis of Hersh’s work – basically if Hersh makes a predictation, he is bound to be wrong!

• Slate: The Leading Indicator That WMD Will Be Found – Seymour M. Hersh says they won’t