Virginian Pilot – Despite being pressed by lawmakers to hold on to the aging aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, the Navyís top admiral underscored his desire Thursday to retire the ship and build a future fleet with just 11 flattops.
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Monthly Archives: October 2005
US Navy – Breaking barriers, sinking stereotypes
Virginian Pilot – Capt. Nora Tyson just finished serving as commanding officer of the amphibious assault ship Bataan. For a time after Hurricane Katrina, she was the voice of the Navy on TV.
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US Navy – Washington Report
Sea Power – Naval news from the US Congress.
Iraq – A Soldier's Story
Wall Street Journal – An interview with General David Petraeus on the current state of the Iraqi Army.
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US Navy – The Fixer
Sea Power – An interview with the Navy’s program executive officer for Littoral and Mine Warfare
Iraq – Interview With Pamela Hess, UPI Defense Correspondent
Q and A – Transcript of an excellent 1 hour long insightful interview conducted by Brian Lamb of UPI Defense Correspondent Pamela Hess, who has reported extensively from Iraq, on what the situation is really like there.
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US Navy – Why Doesn't America Have a Nelson?
Naval War College Review – The U.S. Navy has yet to produce a commander who can equal Nelsonís combination of war-fighting excellence, personal gallantry, and public prominence. Whether the Navy can produce one today, absent a powerful rival on the high seas, is doubtful at best.
Operations Other Than War – Navy sending gear, crews to quake area
Navy Times – How the US Navy is helping with the Pakistan earthquake relief efforts.
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Geopolitics / Iraq – How to Win in Iraq
Foreign Affairs – An insightful essay by Andrew Krepinevich. Because they lack a coherent strategy, U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis rather than hunting down insurgents. And it will take at least a decade.
Piracy – Somalis seek help to stop pirates
BBC – Somalia’s transitional prime minister, Ali Mohammed Ghedi, has urged neighbouring countries to send warships to patrol waters off the Somali coast.
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US Navy – New chief sees expanded role for Navy
Copley News Service – American sailors might operate well beyond their traditional domain of the high seas, the Navy’s new top officer said Thursday in laying out his vision of the Navy’s future.
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Russian Navy – Deep Secrets
Moscow Times – In the new book “Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.,” former American submariner Kenneth Sewell, in collaboration with journalist Clint Richmond, reexamines the 1968 loss of K-129, a Soviet Golf II-class missile submarine. Revisiting this well-known story and the CIA’s aborted effort to recover the hull under the guise of the highly classified Project Jennifer, the author argues that K-129 actually attempted to launch a nuclear weapon against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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US Navy – The Mach 7 Munition
Sea Power – The Navy is planning experiments with artillery that would be able to hit targets with precision 200 to 300 miles inland. The high-tech weapon would give naval surface ships a new, persistent ability to provide indirect fire to Marines or other inland maneuver forces that are rapidly outrunning the umbrella of current naval guns.
Fourth Generation Warfare – Interview with Martin van Creveld
Defense and the National Interest – An interview with military historian Martin van Creveld.
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US Navy – Doing More
Sea Power – After watching U.S. ground forces shoulder the burden of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq during the last four years, Navy leaders are now preparing to provide regional combatant commanders a host of new units and skills tailored to support a range of new capabilities for the war on terrorism.
Iraq – Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speaks at Princeton
TigerHawk – A brief given by Lt. General David Petraeus at Princeton that summarizes his views on Iraq. General Petraeus was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq and subsequently was in charge of training the new Iraqi Army. Interesting insights from a brilliant soldier???
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US Marines – Marines Who Stormed Fallujah Back in Iraq
Associated Press – The 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment from Camp Pendleton, Calif., is one of three Marine battalions sent to Iraq three times. Last November it joined in the battle for Fallujah, where several of its Marines were killed and dozens earned Purple Hearts while clearing out insurgents. Now it is trying to tame Anbar Province’s Sunni Arab cities in the west that previously had no U.S. or Iraqi security forces.
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Royal Australian Navy – Navy ship heads for Iraq
The Advertiser – The frigate HMAS Parramatta has been deployed to the Gulf, becoming the 12th Royal Australian Navy ship to serve in support of operations in the Middle East.
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US Navy – Redefining Tech Support
Sea Power – The Operational Readiness Test System Tech Assist Remote Support (ORTSTARS) redefines the Navyís current notion of long-distance technical support, and is improving readiness and reliability during its initial deployment.
Operations Other Than War – The Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development
Parameters – The purpose of this article is to introduce and analyze the Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development to the military community.
US Navy – Technology and Naval Blockade: Past Impact and Future Prospects
Naval War College Review – Major changes in the ability of states to prevent the movement of ships or goods over the sea lanes have profoundly affected the ways in which maritime blockades are conducted. These changes have rendered the traditional law of blockade largely obsolete. The objective of maritime blockade operations, however, has remained constant.
Royal Australian Navy – History afloat: Navy's newest ship embraces the past
ABC – The Australian Navyís newest ship will be commissioned this weekend, and Brisbane will host the ceremony for the first time in many years. The 118-meter ANZAC class frigate will become the HMAS Toowoomba on Saturday.
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Information Warfare – Digging Deep
Sea Power – The use of data mining reportedly helped unmask a terrorist leader months before 9/11, but there are concerns about coordination and privacy.
US Navy – Remote Control
Sea Power – Ordnance disposal robots are being deployed against deadly concealed explosives in Iraq, Afghanistan.
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US Marines – Iraq Town Yields Arms, Not Men
Washington Post – More on the current US Marine sweep operations in the city of Sadah near the Syrian border.
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