Chinese Navy – A look at how and why the Chinese Navy is increasing in size.

• Washington Post: With Taiwan in Mind, China Focuses Military Expansion on Navy

US Marines – Patroling at night in Port-au-Prince with the Marines.

• Associated Press: Marines Face Danger on Haiti Night Patrol

US Navy – Aboard the USS George Washington in the Persian Gulf.

• Virginian Pilot: Single U.S. carrier, GW, keeps watch

US Navy – Naval lessons learned from Iraq.

• Virginian Pilot: Military learns lessons from the war in Iraq

Background – Iraq – John Keegan looks back on the invasion of Iraq, one year later.

• Daily Telegraph: Brilliant coalition operation to topple the regime

Background – Iraq – A look at how 4th Generation Warfare is being conducted in Iraq.

• Defense in the National Interest: Iraq: Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) Swamp

Background – History – The paths of two powerful men crossed in the early 1920s, and their actions shaped the future of the Navy and Marine Corps.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Lejeune and Denby: Forging a Marine Corps Doctrine

Background – War on Terror – The Bush administration has literalized its “war” on terrorism, dissolving the legal boundaries between what a government can do in peacetime and what’s allowed in war. This move may have made it easier for Washington to detain or kill suspects, but it has also threatened basic due process rights, thereby endangering us all.

• Foreign Affairs: The Law of War in the War on Terror