Marine Corps Times – The hospital ship USNS Comfort is about to arrive off of the Gulf Coast.
Fox News – USNS Comfort May Serve As Respite for Responders.
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Monthly Archives: September 2005
US Navy – Worn soldiers, storm victims grateful for Navy ship's comforts
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the USS Iwo Jima, off the Gulf Coast.
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US Marines – Getting Swept
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind criticize the use of sweep tactics by Marines in Iraq.
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Taiwanese Navy – Turnabout in Taipei
Sea Power – As China bolsters its forces, Taiwan reduces conscription and adopts an attitude on defense preparedness that can only be described as blasÈ.
Russian Navy – New Navy Chief Vows to Boost Effort
St. Petersburg Times – Russiaís new naval chief vowed on Monday to boost discipline and provide better leadership in the accident-prone navy, a day after his appointment by President Vladimir Putin.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Some Responses
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind shares some of the feedback he has gotten regarding his idea of a national militia being the best response to the Fourth Generation Threat.
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US Navy – Squadrons to the rescue
Pensacola News Journal – What the USS Bataan’s helicopters were doing on Saturday.
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Russian Navy – Putin sacks head of Russian navy
BBC – Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked the head of the navy, Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, a month after a mini-submarine accident.
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US Coast Guard – Sentinel of the Atlantic
Sea Power – Vice Admiral Vivien Crea cranks up the drug busts as she juggles missions and resources.
US Navy – Crew of Navy ship ready to play larger role in relief effort
Chicago Tribune – A look at what life has been like aboard the USS Bataan this week, and how much more it could have contributed to the relief effort in New Orleans. As it has literally steamed in circles this week in the Gulf of Mexico, it serves as a symbol of the US government’s disastrous response to the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina.
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US Marines – Bush orders more troops to Gulf Coast
CNN – The 1st and 2nd Marine Expeditionary Forces are to be sent to the Gulf Coast.
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Iraq – Occupational Hazards
Foreign Affairs – Two postmortems on the Iraq occupation lambaste Washington for handling the job poorly. But doing much better would be so difficult that perhaps the bar should be raised for going to war in the first place.
US Navy – Carrier Roosevelt deploys for Persian Gulf
Virginian Pilot – The USS Theodore Roosevelt deploys to the Persian Gulf which will be the last cruise of the F-14 Tomcat.
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US Coast Guard – Desperate Victims Turning Combative
Washington Post – A first hand look at the Coast Guard’s efforts in rescuing individiuals in the Gulf Coast.
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Wargaming – Cybertroops Keep War Games Real
New Map Game – An extensive summary (90 pages) of Thomas P.M. Barnett’s New Map Game wargame that occured earlier this year.
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History – Cold War Strategic ASW
Undersea Warfare – Soviet strategic missile submarines were the greatest naval threat to the United States during the Cold War. Accordingly, strategic antisubmarine warfare (ASW) became a major role of the U.S. Navy, especially the attack submarines. This excerpt from Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines by Normal Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore briefly describes the development of strategic ASW.
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US Navy – Carrier Truman joins hurricane relief effort
Virginian Pilot – The USS Harry S. Truman heads to the Gulf Coast, to serve as a helicopter carrier.
Associated Press – More Navy Ships Headed to the Gulf Coast and Pentagon Resources Pouring Into Gulf Area.
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Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Tokyo eyes MSDF exit at expiry of Indian Ocean duty
Japan Times – Japan may withdraw the Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels providing logistic support in the Indian Ocean for naval vessels involved in the U.S.-led antiterror campaign in and around Afghanistan when the mission expires November 1.
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US Navy – USS Bataan
US Navy – Navy ships depart Hampton Roads for Gulf Coast
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima, the USS Tortuga, the USS Shreveport and the USS Grapple head towards the Gulf Coast.
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Royal Navy – Carrier project will go ahead ñ but at a price
The Herald – The latest on the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier project.
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Canadian Navy – Canada sends navy to Arctic north
BBC – Canada is sending its navy back to the far northern Arctic port of Churchill after a 30-year absence.
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