Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how fifteen months of combat in Iraq are leaving an imprint on the U.S. military. All the services are changing, but the Army especially is undergoing radical change as a result of the unexpectedly difficult occupation, in which it has suffered nearly 6,000 casualties.
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Monthly Archives: July 2004
Fourth Generation War – The Canon, continued
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind lists the books to read to understand 4th Generation War – Part 2.
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US Marines – Marine Forces Reserve
Marine Corps Gazette – The Reserves are leveraging recent successes to shape the flexible, responsive Reserve Component needed for the global war on terrorism.
Iraq – Letter From Falluja – Home Rule
New Yorker – A fascinating look at what life is now like inside Falluja.
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Singaporean Navy – Stealthy, sleek and made in Singapore
Straits Times – The launch of the largest stealth and strike frigate to be built in Singapore – it is the second of six to be added to the navy fleet.
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Canadian Navy – The navy life: Excitement on the high seas
Kingston Whig Standard – Life aboard HMCS Kingston.
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US Marines – Returning Marines face new battle at home
San Diego Union Tribune – A look at how the Marines are practicing combat stress control to reduce the incidence of post traumatic stress disorder.
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US Navy – Enterprise surges through its deployment
Virginian Pilot – The carrier Enterprise, showing the flag in the North Atlantic for the first time since before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is halfway through an unexpected deployment designed to demonstrate the Navyís ability to rush its forces to sea.
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Iraq – Spillover
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the war on terrorism.
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Iraq – The Iraq Handover: Lessons for Next Time
New York Post – Ralph Peters shares his lessons learned from Iraq.
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History – The Submarine, 1776ñ1918
US Naval War College Review – The submarine developed slowly, then grew swiftly, triumphed astoundingly, and failed decisively.
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US Marines – Increasing Cultural Awareness
Marine Corps Gazette – Over the past 30 years the Marine Corps has conducted operations in Lebanon, Grenada, Iraq, Panama, Somalia, Liberia, Haiti, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. Marines on such diverse missions must understand potential enemies as well as communicate with coalition partners. Failing to improve the Corpsí current cultural awareness will arguably prove to be a critical vulnerability for U.S. forces. However, the Marine Corps can take proactive steps over the next 15 to 20 years in order to increase the cultural awareness and understanding of its Operating Forces.
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History – Tell Us
Naval History – The importance of oral histories for future generations.
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Disarmament – The Death of Disarmament in Russia?
Parameters – Is the pace of Russian disarmament slowing down?
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US Navy – Navy super carrier takes center stage in war games
Honolulu Advertiser – Aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in Exercise RIMPAC 2004 which is underway in the Pacific.
More coverage of RIMPAC 2004:
San Diego Union Tribune – RIMPAC off Hawaii includes 7 nations
Associated Press – RIMPAC gets underway
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Fourth Generation War – The Canon Part 1
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind lists the books to read to understand 4th Generation Warfare – Part 1.
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Editorial Note – NOSI's New Look
Welcome to NOSI’s new look.
Although the change in appearance is slight, the change behind the scenes is large.
This new look will allow me to introduce new features to NOSI that will make it more powerful and useful to you. These new features include a working RSS feed and an automated archive. I will take the time to explain these in detail next week.
The reason for the timing of the change is simple – today is the midpoint of the year, and is the time when I traditionally make a 6 month archive of NOSI.
Please note that the home page of NOSI will continue to contain approximately a month’s archive of news stories???it will take us a month from today to build that archive back up???
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Editorial Note – Archive for January 2004 – June 2004 Available
Royal Navy – UK servicemen 'forced' into Iran
BBC – Eight British servicemen claim they were “forcibly escorted into Iranian territorial waters” before being taken captive, the defence secretary has said.
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US Coast Guard – Coast Guard to Board Each Foreign Ship
Associated Press – The Coast Guard will board every foreign flagged vessel that sails into a US port beginning Thursday to check if it is complying with rules aimed at foiling terrorists.
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US Navy – U.S. Military Exercise Raises Cuban Invasion Fears
Center for Defense Information – Recent U.S. Navy exercises have caused concern among Cuban officials about the growing possibility of U.S. military action there.
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US Marines – In the Line of Fire
The Atlantic – Robert D. Kaplan joined U.S. Marines as they stormed Fallujah, and returned to share his impressions.
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