Algerian Navy – Algeria and Italy are exercising together.

• Middle Eastern Newsline: Algeria, Italy Hold Naval Exercises

US Navy – Another UHF Follow-on communications satellite is to be launched, to be used by the Navy for tactical communications.

• Spaceflight Now: Atlas rocket to boost U.S. Navy satellite into orbit
• Spaceflight Now: UHF Follow-On Program

Background – Iraq – Seymour Hersh reports the US is setting up a new counter insurgency unit to fight the Iraqi guerrillas. The unit is being influenced by US experiences in Vietnam and Israeli experiences battling the Intifada.

• The New Yorker: Moving Targets

Background – Global Operations – Examining trends in the global security environment and the ways in which the U.S. military has organized to deal with past challenges provides the foundation for understanding the implications for America’s armed forces today, as we transform our military into one that is ready to provide effective missile defense, information operations, space operations, and other capabilities that do not respect our traditional regional boundaries.

• US Naval War College Review: Shift to a Global Perspective