Canadian Navy – Canada’s navy is taking a year off to rest and recuperate.

• Toronto Globe and Mail: Worn-out navy says it’s taking a ‘pause’ for a year

US Coast Guard – If ever a Coast Guard cutter dealt with nearly everything short of toe-to-toe combat, it was the Charleston-based Dallas on its recent deployment to the Mediterranean.

• Charleston Post and Courier: Mediterranean deployment kept Dallas busy

US Marines – An excellent review and bibliography of published works on British and U.S. amphibious operations Bin the last century.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Some Aspects of the Historiography of British and U.S. Doctrines of Amphibious Operations in the 20th Century

Background – Iraq – James F. Dunnigan analyses the American situation in Iraq and what the way forward should be.

• Strategy Page: The Impossible Dream in Iraq