Urban Pakistan – Pakistan is sending naval vessels to aid the tsunami victims of Sri Lanka.
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
US Navy – U.S. military on relief mission
Associated Press – A summary of US aid to tsunami victims, to date.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – 4GW & Riddles of Culture
Defense and the National Interest – As T.X. Hammes argues in The Sling and the Stone, 4GW began to take shape in the 1920s, and its roots go back to the dawn of history. An explanation of why it is just now becoming the dominant form of warfare.
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Israeli Navy – Navy's plans to procure new vessels frozen
Jerusalem Post – Israel has frozen ambitious plans for the purchase of large vessels that would have turned the Israeli Navy from a coast guard into a strategic arm of the defense apparatus.
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US Navy – U.S. Begins Aid Delivery in Sumatra
Washington Post – Seahawk helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln have begun delivering aid to survivors in Indonesia.
More from the Associated Press who has a reporter aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Geopolitics / Russia – Look back at Weimar ñ and start to worry about Russia
Daily Telegraph – Niall Ferguson on how Vladimir Putin is fast becoming as big a threat to Western security as he is to Russian democracy.
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Geopolitics / Water – Where Oil and Water Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Parameters – How water will become a resource that will lead to conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.
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US Marines – Osprey's fate is in Marines' hands
Copley News Service – The latest in the saga of the MV-22 Osprey.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – An OODA Loop Writ Large – 4GW and the Iraq War
Defense and the National Interest – In a new briefing, three retired officers – each hailing from a different service – lay out a vision for how the U.S. military must reorient itself to help meet security and reconstruction objectives in Iraq.
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