Announcement of New Feature – I have added a new feature to NOSI today, in the left-hand navigation bar, a Reading List / Curriculum. The intention of this reading list and curriculum is to provide a reference library of articles that can be used both by new users of NOSI to bring them up-to-date on a subject; and by long-time users to NOSI to help them quickly review a subject. Think of the whole list of articles as a basic curriculum in current military affairs. All of these are articles I have linked to in the past. What you see right now is just a start, over the next few months I’ll put some more up as I review all the articles I have linked to from the start.

Israeli Navy – Could the Harpoon be used as a nuclear-tipped land attack missile?

• Jerusalem Post: Harpoon missile story said politically motivated

US Navy – Sometime this winter, the Pentagon will take another step in its 22-year search for an effective and politically feasible missile-defense system, as it decides upon appropriate basing platforms, or modes, for U.S. interceptor missiles intended to destroy attacking ballistic missiles during their first few seconds of flight. A decision is not expected for months, but some missile defense experts believe that the Pentagon’s long and tortuous path toward development of a missile-defense system should end under water.

• Sea Power: Subs: Best Basing Mode for Boost-Phase Defense?