Pakistani Navy – Pakistan will buy 4 frigates from China.

• APP: China to provide four warships to Pakistan

German Navy – The European shipbuilding industry begins to consolidate.

• Financial Times: Germany plays at battleships

US Marines – The violence at al Fallujah, Iraq, which in April drew the 1st Marine Division into a deadly street fight, highlighted weaknesses in the U.S. and coalition forcesí intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for supporting urban operations.

• Sea Power: Urban Operations Challenge Shows Limits of U.S., Allied ISR Capability

US Navy – An address by former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at the U.S. Naval Institute 130th Annual Meeting and Annapolis Naval History Symposium in 2004.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Our Enemy Is Not Terrorism

Background – Iraq – An excellent article on a possible exit strategy for Iraq by Peter W. Galbraith, the current US Ambassador to Croatia. According to Thomas Ricks, this is being widely circulated in the US military.

• New York Review of Books: How to Get Out of Iraq