US Navy – More on the new “Fleet Response Plan.”

• Virginian Pilot: Navy plan aims to make service more flexible

Russian Navy – An important, troubling, and unresolved legacy of the Cold War is the remaining stock of nonstrategic tactical nuclear weapons, many of them obsoleteóa complex matter beyond the reach of traditional arms control or cooperative threat reduction, and that Russia, with the predominance of such weapons, is particularly reluctant to address. The West can reduce the threat in a free market manner: by simply buying Russiaís excess weapons and disposing of them.

• US Naval War College Review: Dealing with Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons – Cash for Kilotons

Background – Geopolitics – Thomas P.M Barnett interviewed on CSPAN this week. Watch the program or read the transcript.

• Booknotes: The Pentagonís New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century