US Navy – A look at some of the jobs performed by submarines in the war against Iraq.

• Virginian Pilot: 3 sub commanders receive Bronze Stars

Royal Navy – Will there be a fleet review in honour of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar?

• Daily Telegraph: MoD scuppers bicentenary of Trafalgar
• Daily Telegraph: Navy expects No 10 to do its duty

Canadian Navy – Canada’s Atlantic Fleet will be without its supply ship for 10 months while she is overhauled.

• Halifax Herald: Refit leaves navy
  in short supply

Canadian Navy – Canada intends to maintain surveillance of its coasts with a new land-based over the horizon radar system called the High-Frequency Surface Wave Radar Network.

• National Post: Radar stations to guard Canada by sea

Bruneian Navy – Singapore and Brunei are exercising – via computer.

• The Straits Times: S’pore, Brunei navies on high-tech exercise

Royal Australian Navy – the ANZAC frigates are to be upgraded with an anti-missile system.

• Ferret: Anzac frigates to be upgraded

Background – Iraq – More pessimistic analysis from William Lind and others on the progress of the guerilla war in Iraq. They believe the US will be unable to triumph in a 4th Generation War.

• Defense and the National Interest: The Politics of War
• Defense and the National Interest: War in Iraq: New developments & implications