The Times – Spain and Gibraltar put on a rare display of unity yesterday in condemning the unscheduled arrival of an ailing Royal Navy nuclear submarine at the disputed British colony.
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Monthly Archives: February 2005
US Navy – Hospital ship Mercy arrives off Sumatra
San Diego Union Tribune – The Navy hospital ship Mercy arrived off the coast of northern Sumatra yesterday evening with its San Diego crew eager to help island people ravaged by the tsunami.
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Russian Navy – Russian Navy to exercise in North Atlantic
Bellona – The Baltic and Northern Fleets will conduct exercises in North Atlantic in August-September, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Kuroyedov told journalists on January 31.
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Russian Navy – Two nuclear-powered subs might join Russian Navy in 2005
Bellona – In 2005, the Russian Navy will be supplied with two strategic nuclear-powered submarines Yury Dolgoruky and Dmitry Donskoy carrying on board the newest sea-based missiles systems “Bulava”, claims the First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Belousov.
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History – In the Lair of the Wolf Pack: Hitler's French U-Boat Bases
World War II Magazine – Adolf Hitler turned submarine bases along the French coast into some of the most feared fortifications in the world.
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Canadian Navy – Navy qualified sub-standard submariners
Canadian Press – A report documenting serious training deficiencies in Canada’s submarine force.
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US Navy – US carrier begins Aceh pull-out
BBC – The USS Abraham Lincoln which despatched the first helicopters to deliver aid to Aceh after the tsunami is to leave the area.
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US Navy – Admiral faces uncharted waters with new classes of surface ships
Virginian Pilot – The Navy’s emerging surface ship force that Rear Adm. Terrance T. Etnyre will command from the Pacific probably will resemble little of the present fleet and even less of the one he’s known for the past 30 years.
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Terrorism – Al Qaeda's New Front
Frontline – An investigation into the threat radical jihadists pose to Western Europe and its allies – including the U.S. Read the Transcript, and the Interviews, Special Reports, and essay on Al Qaeda Today.
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Terrorism – Magnum Force
Wired – Thomas P.M. Barnett on what Dirty Harry can teach the new Geneva conventions.
US Navy – Raytheon's Penetrating JSOW Enters Full-Rate Production
Sea Power – Defense news from around the fleet.
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Operations Other Than War – Mission to Sumatra
New Yorker – The marines of Expeditionary Strike Group Five take on the tsunami. Outstanding overview of their humanitarian operations in Indonesia.
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US Coast Guard – Coast Guard Turns Its Eyes Underwater
New York Times – Fearing that the nation’s ports are vulnerable to an underwater attack, the United States Coast Guard is extending its domestic law-enforcement mission into a new arena: the sea below.
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French Navy – French deliver tsunami aid with panache
Associated Press – Aboard the helicopter carrier Jeanne D’Arc off of Indonesia.
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US Navy – U.S. Military Scaling Back Relief Ops
Associated Press – The USS Abraham Lincoln prepares to return home.
Military Sealift Command – Maritime Administration
SeaPower – The state of the merchant marine in January 2005.
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