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Monthly Archives: September 2004
US Navy – Navy hoping ''pre-sea swap'' prepares crews for ship switch
Virginian Pilot – When sailors were so disappointed with a new Navy program that they thought about quitting, service leaders apparently listened. The ìSea Swapî experiment, which essentially deploys ships for as long as two years while changing out its crews, will now be modified so that participants can get used to the idea before they ever leave their home port.
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Geopolitics / Energy – Are Rising Oil Prices a Case of the Jitters Ö or a Harbinger of Longer Term Problems?????
Defense and the National Interest – Is the price of oil going to be permanently increased? And how is the insurgency in Iraq contributing to this. An interesting followup to the prior piece from Defense and the National Interest on how the Iraqi insurgents are targeting Iraq’s oil infrastructure???
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US Navy – CNA Report on Sea Swap Exercises Gives Experiment Mixed Reviews
Sea Power – The U.S. Navyís Sea Swap experiment was ìclearly a success,î according to a new report about the program, with the ships involved maintaining a high level of readiness during the roughly 18-month study period. But the same report questions whether the savings offered by the swaps ó in funding and operations ó are worth the burden the program places on sailors in terms of work and quality of life.
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US Navy – Report questions timetable for Navy's new ship
Virginian Pilot – The Navy may be moving too quickly in the development of the next-generation DDX destroyer, relying on technologies that have yet to be fully proven, Congressional investigators warned Friday.
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Geopolitics / North Korea – The Fire Last Time
Foreign Affairs – An insiders’ view of the deal struck with North Korea in 1994 and a core lesson for the Bush administration: there’s no substitute for negotiation.
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History – Tonkin Gulf Reappraisal: 40 Years Later
MHQ – Forty years after North Vietnamese patrol boats reportedly attacked U.S. destroyers, the sequence of events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident is finally coming into clearer focus.
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US Navy – Deployment for three Norfolk-based ships cancelled
Virginian Pilot – The new Fleet Response Plan in action. In July, some 2,000 sailors thought they were heading overseas in August. In August , they heard they were leaving in September. Now theyíve been told there are no plans to go at all.
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy frigate comes calling
Express News Service – HMS Cumberland will exercise with the Indian Navy later this month.
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Transformation – Shift From Traditional War Seen at Pentagon
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how top Pentagon officials are considering a new, long-term strategy that shifts spending and resources away from large-scale warfare to build more agile, specialized forces for fighting guerrilla wars, confronting terrorism and handling less conventional threats, officials said yesterday.
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Iraq – Is Oil America's Achilles' Heel in Iraq????
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting article in which the author argues that the Iraqi insurgents are deliberately targeting Iraq’s oil infrastructure because they think it is the United States’ key vulnerabilityówhich it would be, if the United States’ goal is really to control the oil.
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Iraq – The Desert Fox
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on how Muqtada al-Sadr won, even though he lost.
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Information Warfare – Thinking About Deception
Defense and the National Interest – This brief paper discusses the most often asked questions about military deception: What is it?
Why do it? How do you measure its impact, or, how do you calculate its contribution to winning? Can you rely on it?
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