ASEAN Navies – ASEAN naval chiefs are meeting to discuss issues of common interest.

• New Strait Times: Strengthening Asean naval ties

US Navy – The Trimersible, the design of which envisions a monohull platform fitted with two semisubmersible pontoons, could be tailored for a variety of missions.

• SeaPower: The Trimersible Enters the Fray As Navy Refines Its Sea Basing Concept

Background – Homeland Security – Flying combat air patrols over US cities with US Air Force pilots in their F-16’s.

• CNN: The serious business of combat air patrol

Background – Terrorism – A concise history of terrorism.

• Center for Defense Information: A Brief History of Terrorism

NOSI will next be updated on Monday. See you then!

US Marines – Definitions of 4th Generation Warfare, Nontrinitarian War, Nonlinear Warfare, Asymmetric Warfare, and Third-Wave War.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Definitions for the ‘New Reality’

US Navy – Some of the SEALs missions in Iraq.

• San Diego Union Tribune: SEALs give glimpse of missions in Iraq

Background – Oceanography – The deepest diving submersible in the world has been lost at sea.

• Associated Press: Deep diving sub lost in Pacific

Background – History – America’s first submarine – the Turtle.

• SeaPower: America’s First Submarine

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