US Navy – The new SECNAV will be???the old SECNAV?

• Virginian Pilot: Bush wants Gordon England back as Navy secretary

US Navy – The first Expeditionary Strike Group sets sail???and is described as an “Amphibious Ready Group on steroids.”

• Reuters: U.S. deploys new type of naval strike force

US Marines – The second in a continuing series of articles on the operations of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment against Saddam Hussein’s regime.

• Leatherneck: Breaking Through the Berms: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Background – Iraq – Military historian Gwynne Dwyer provides an interesting look at the guerilla’s possible strategy in Iraq.

• Toronto Star: A guerrilla war takes root –
  Iraqis opposed to U.S. are destroying structures and services on which the population depends