Taiwan News – While China’s Navy with its large number of surface ships and submarines can be an intimidating force, the Taiwan Navy sees its own Knox-Class frigates of the 168 Fleet as an ace in the hole.
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Monthly Archives: September 2004
US Navy – Electric Drive for DD(X) Sparks Competition Over Exotic Motors
Sea Power – One of the keys to success in the U.S. Navyís pursuit of an integrated power system (IPS), or electric drive, for its future surface combatants is development of an electric motor that packs much more power in a much smaller machine than has ever gone to sea.
US Marines – Norfolk Marine tells story of rooftop fight in Iraq
Virginian Pilot – Marine Cpl. Lonnie Young waged the battle of his life in Iraq on April 4: Trapped on a rooftop with a handful of other men, he helped to face down hundreds of Iraqi insurgents attacking from all directions.
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Geopolitics / Palestine – The Receding Horizon: The Endless Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace
Foriegn Affairs – In The Missing Peace, Dennis Ross provides a fair and clear-headed overview of almost ten years of Middle East peacemaking. Although he finds plenty of blame to spread around, he sees one man as the ultimate impediment: Yasir Arafat.
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US Navy – Navy to shut down sub radio transmitters
Associated Press – The Navy is shutting down its extremely low frequency communication system used for communicating with submarines.
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Ground Warfare – Modern Soldiers From Ancient Texts
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how to reduce combat stress in soldiers.
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History – Fateful Voyage of Lusitania
MHQ – The Cunard liner’s captain expected a safe Atlantic crossing, but a German U-boat would bring Lusitania’s journey to a devastating end.
US Marines – Marines see little progress in rebel-controlled Fallujah
Boston Globe – The Marines’ current evaluation of the situation in Fallujah.
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Terrorism – Bin Laden's Vision Becoming Reality
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting evaluation of the current state of the war on terrorism.
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US Navy – Giambastiani: Change in Culture Key to Joint Transformation
Sea Power – An interview with Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr, who wears two hats as the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation, and Commander, Joint Forces Command.
US Navy – Training is touch-and-go around Oceana
Virginian Pilot – A look at the problems the US Navy faces in providing realistic jet training for its pilots.
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US Navy – Experimentation Is the Way to Transformation
US Naval Institute Proceedings – In the research-and-development playpen of the 1950s, do you think they had a clue about the probable life-cycle cost of an envisioned system or could explain where it would fit in the force for the next 30 years? Are you kidding?
US Navy – Four ships with 2,700 sailors will return Friday and Saturday
Virginian Pilot – The USS Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group will return this week from a seven-month deployment in the Gulf.
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US Navy – Industry Adapts Outdoor Gear Technology to Flight Clothing
Sea Power – News from around the defense industry.
Terrorism – Terrorizing Schools
New York Post – Ralph Peters points out that “The terrorist assault on civilization and modernity has many aspects, from barbarism toward women to bombings and massacres. But no dimension of the struggle is more important than the Islamist war against secular education. All other progress flows from knowledge. And the terrorists know it. “
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US Marines – Key General Criticizes April Attack In Fallujah
Washington Post – Lt. Gen. James T. Conway, the outgoing U.S. Marine Corps general in charge of western Iraq, said Sunday he opposed a Marine assault on militants in the volatile city of Fallujah in April and the subsequent decision to withdraw from the city and turn over control to a security force of former Iraqi soldiers.
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US Navy – Darpa Readies UCAR Downselect
Aviation Week and Space Technology – The US Navy is beginning to show an interest in unmanned combat armed rotorcraft.
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US Navy – Navy Puts Aegis Ballistic Missile Defenses On Alert in Pacific – Antimissile Force to Comprise 18 Ships by End of 2006 as Part of 'Layered Defense'
Sea Power – A look at the Aegis ballistic missile defense system and how it will be deployed in the Pacific.
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History – The Workhorse of the Pacific
Marine Corps Gazette – The landing craft vehicle personnel was the amphibious workhorse of World War II (WWII).
Without its versatile aspects and the foresight of key individuals in the United States, its accomplishments would not have occurred.
Geopolitics / Globalization – The Miracles of Globalization
Foreign Affairs – Economic journalist Martin Wolf adds sharp insights to the trade-liberalization debate and scores a major victory against critics of globalization.
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Editorial Note
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Indonesian Navy – Three-nation Patrols of Malacca Straits are Successfully Reducing Piracy
Radio Singapore International – Indonesia’s naval commander says piracy in the Malacca Straits has decreased as a result of three-nation patrols which began in the waterway last month.
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US Navy – Admiral disputes claim of disunity in Afghanistan planning
Virginian Pilot – Was the planning for Afghanistan not so joint afterall?
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Iraq – U.S. Troops' Death Rate Rising In Iraq
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how the fighting in Iraq appears to be intensifying rather than waning.
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Wargaming – Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming
Air & Space Power Chronicles – An outstanding overview of the history of wargaming.
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