Royal Navy – The submarine HMS Spartan has been fitted with an underwater hanger to aid operations by the SBS.

• Sunday Times: Son of a sub gives SBS frogmen new weapon

US Navy – Naval news from around the US defense industry.

• Sea Power: The Industrial Base

Background – Iraq – Another look at the shadow war that convinced Iraq’s military not to resist the US invasion.

• Sunday Times: Treachery: How Iraq went to war against Saddam

Background – War on Terror – Thomas Friedman on how to successfully fight the war on terror, we must partner with the forces of moderation within Muslim societies to help them fight the war of ideas.

• New York Times: War of Ideas, Part 1
• New York Times: War of Ideas, Part 2