Israeli Navy – Israel wants to procure an amphibious assault vessel.
- Jerusalem Post: Navy commander wants amphibious assault vessel
US Navy – The US navy is planning an unusual task force deployment off the West African coast.
US Marines – The Marines prepare to pull out of Haiti.
Background – Geopolitics – Thomas P.M. Barnett feels that we should encourage Russia, China, and India to join us as allies in Iraq???
- Washington Post: Forget Europe. How About These Allies?
Background – History – “The title of my paper is a ‘Trinityí of sortsó”John Ericsson”, “the Monitors”, and “Union Naval Strategy”óand each element is part of, a consequence of, the other. It is inappropriate to discuss Ericsson in any symposium without addressing his most notable, if not crucial invention (arguably), the ironclad U.S.S. Monitor; impossible to make note of that particular warship and her follow-ons without acknowledging Ericssonís central role in their construction; and altogether bad history to explore the naval strategy of the Union during the great American Civil War of 1861-1865 without stressing the utter reliance of the United States and its Navy upon both the monitors and Ericssonóupon its front-line fleet of ironclads, and one man.”
- Internet Journal of Naval History: John Ericsson, the Monitors, and Union Naval Strategy
Background – History – A look at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.
Background – Foreign Policy – Sandy Berger says that by stressing unilateralism over cooperation, preemption over prevention, and firepower over staying power, the Bush administration has alienated the United States’ natural allies and disengaged from many of the world’s most pressing problems. To restore U.S. global standing–which is essential in checking the spread of lethal weapons and winning the war on terrorism–the next Democratic president must recognize the obvious: that means are as important as ends.
- Foreign Affairs: Foreign Policy for a Democratic President
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