Royal Navy – Iraqi’s continue to smuggle oil out of Iraq.

• BBC: Navy seizes smuggled Iraqi oil

Canadian Navy – A serious fire occurs aboard HMCS Ottawa.

• Times Colonist: Crew fights major blaze in frigate’s engine room

Background – American Warfighting – “The American way of war” refers to the grinding strategy of attrition that U.S. generals traditionally employed to prevail in combat. But that was then. Spurred by dramatic advances in information technology, the new American way of war relies on speed, maneuver, flexibility, and surprise. This approach was put on display in the invasion of Iraq and should reshape what the military looks like.

• Foreign Affairs: The New American Way of War