US Marines – With the Marines in Haiti again???

• Daily Telegraph: ‘Why don’t they turn the electricity back on? It looks like they are here on vacation

US Navy – The U.S. Navy’s traditional missions are generally less relevant today than in recent decades, because of advances in technology and changes in the global environment. To meet the radically altered requirements now placed upon military forces, the Navy must transform itself, mission by mission. It is a tall order.

• US Naval War College Review: Is the U.S. Navy Being Marginalized?

Background – Leadership – Part 1 of Rick Atkinson’s first hand account of what it was like for Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus to lead the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq.

• Washington Post: The Long, Blinding Road to War