New York Times Magazine – Peter Maass on the “El-Salvadorization of Iraq:” The campaign against the insurgency in Iraq is increasingly being waged by an elite regiment of Sunni-led fighters. Their leader is a former general in Saddam Hussein’s army, their American adviser is a veteran of the Central American campaigns of the 1980’s and they sometimes play by the rules of the old Iraq. Is the war getting dirtier?
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Daily Archives: May 6, 2005
US Marines – US Marines land on Somali coast to hunt militants
Reuters – U.S. Marines landed on Somalia’s coast in one of their most visible hunts for militants in the country since they set up a Horn of Africa counter terrorism force in 2002.
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US Navy – Navy sonar under scrutiny
Virginian Pilot – The Navy plans to create a sonar training range where its forces can learn to detect enemy submarines. But with sonar known to have contributed to some whale deaths and possibly linked to other cases of animal distress a battle is brewing.
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US Navy – The Secrets of Centric
Sea Power – New technologies are one element of success as the Navy applies its theory of warfare, but new structures and processes also are essential.
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