NATO – A look at how NATO forces will help guard the Olympics.

• Washington Post: NATO Pledges Ships And Aircraft to Help Safeguard Olympics

US Navy – More about the problems with the Navy Marine Corps Intranet.

• I Cringely: Conscientious Objector

US Navy – Navy news from around the defense industry.

• Sea Power: Boeing Lands Super Hornet Multiyear; EA-18G Version Enters Demo Phase

Background – History – The “Qualifications of a Naval Officer” quotation variously attributed to John Paul Jones and force-fed to U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen in the publication Reef Points presents a clear sign of naval transformation at the turn of the 20th century. The action of a recent Commandant of Midshipmen, however, officially acknowledges that Jones had nothing to do with this 100-year-old mantra.

• Naval History: The Best Quote Jones Never Wrote

Background – Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia is in the throes of a crisis, but its elite is bitterly divided on how to escape it. Crown Prince Abdullah leads a camp of liberal reformers seeking rapprochement with the West, while Prince Nayef, the interior minister, sides with an anti-American Wahhabi religious establishment that has much in common with al Qaeda. Abdullah cuts a higher profile abroad — but at home Nayef casts a longer and darker shadow.

• Foreign Affairs: The Saudi Paradox