Winnipeg Free Press – Gwynne Dyer ends the year on an interesting note, as always, summarizing the state of conflict in the world in the last year???
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Iraq – The future of America — in Iraq
Los Angeles Times – Robert Kaplan says if you want to meet the future political leaders of America, go to Iraq.
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Nigerian Navy – 96 hours with the Nigerian Navy
Independent – Life in today’s Nigerian Navy.
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US Navy – Navy hospital corpsmen rely on instinct
Daily Press – A look at the life of a Hospital Corpsman.
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US Navy – Winter to assume secretary of Navy post
Virginian Pilot – A look at the new Secretary of the Navy.
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US Navy -Navy Secretary England steps down, allowing new leader
Virginian Pilot – Navy Secretary Gordon England – who has also been serving as the acting deputy defense secretary – gave up his Navy post today, clearing the way for a new naval leader. The move will allow Donald Winter to be sworn in as Navy secretary next week.
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Wargaming – Streamlined databases drive military simulation
Military & Aerospace Electronics – Improved displays and screens are helping engineers build sharper pictures, but the greatest improvement in military simulation and mission rehearsal has been in software. Military users strive to feed the simulators with real-world, nearly real-time data freshly collected from satellite-based sensors.
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Russian Navy – New ballistic missile launched from Russian Typhoon nuclear sub
Bellona – The Russian strategic nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy launched the new Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea.
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Russian Navy – Russian navy will not get Delta-IV Tula this year
Bellona – The nuclear submarine K-114 Tula Project 667BDRM, having undergone repair at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk in Arkhangelsk region, will not be handed over to the Russian Navy as planned???The reason is the Ministry of Defence’s major debts to the plant.
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US Marines – Sometimes It Takes a Marine
Marine Corps Gazette – The Marines contributation to Operation Anaconda.
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US Marines – What Our NCOs Are Saying
Leatherneck – Noncommissioned officers are up-front leaders, so who better to provide lessons for improving combat capabilities and tactics.
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Indian Navy – For Gorshkov, Navy pilots head to US for training
Indian Express – By the time Russian-built aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov arrives in 2008, the Navy will have a contingent of 32 pilots, trained in specialised deck-based fighter operations at the US Navy training command in Pensacola, Florida.
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Sri Lankan Navy – Sri Lankan Navy and Rebels Clash, Threatening Cease-Fire
New York Times – Tamil separatists attacked two Sri Lankan Navy ships early Thursday morning, abducting three sailors, the military said, and pushing the battered island nation closer to resuming its two-decade civil war.
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History – China Marines: The Lost Leathernecks
World War II – In the twilight of peace, the China Marines found themselves on the front lines of conflict.
Operations Other Than War – Chinook Diplomacy
Wall Street Journal – The U.S. military wins hearts and minds in Pakistan.
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US Navy – Navy to get back loaned patrol ships
Virginian Pilot – Just like their names ñ Whirlwind, Squall, Hurricane and Thunderbolt ñ the Navyís fleet of patrol coastal ships has had a storm-tossed history. After operating the 13 sleek, compact craft for the first six years of their lives, the Navy decided in 1998 the gas guzzlers were too expensive to maintain and began getting rid of them. The service volunteered to give five to the Coast Guard and sell others to allied navies???Now the Navy is taking them all back.
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US Navy – Navy's Last 2 Battleships to Be Decommissioned
Knight Ridder – The last two U.S. battleships, the USS Iowa and the USS Wisconsin, have been decommissioned and reactivated several times in their 60-year history. Now they are facing their final deactivation and could be turned into museums.
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Royal Navy – Carrier order 'behind schedule'
BBC – A £31bn project to replace Royal Navy aircraft carriers and fighter planes may be falling “behind schedule”, an influential group of MPs has warned.
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Intelligence – Governments Tremble at Google's Bird's-Eye View
New York Times – When Google introduced Google Earth, free software that marries satellite and aerial images with mapping capabilities, the company emphasized its usefulness as a teaching and navigation tool, while advertising the pure entertainment value of high-resolution flyover images of the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the pyramids.
But since its debut last summer, Google Earth has received attention of an unexpected sort. Officials of several nations have expressed alarm over its detailed display of government buildings, military installations and other important sites within their borders.
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Norwegian Navy – US Navy to test Norwegian stealth vessels
Norway Post – The US elite force Navy Seals has shown considerable interest in the Norwegian high speed patrol boats of the “Skjold” class, built with stealth technology. This makes the vessels difficult to detect by radar.
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Iraq – Iraqis in former rebel stronghold now cheer American soldiers
Daily Telegraph – Evidence that the “ink spot” strategy can work in Iraq. A report from Tal Afar, where Colonel H.R. McMaster and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment are showing how its done???
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Royal Navy – Chile, U.K. Complete Type 23 Frigate Purchase, Refit Deal
Sea Power – Naval news from Chile, Australia, India, United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan
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US Navy – Kennedy carrier appears safe until fall
Virginian Pilot – The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy apparently will remain in service until at least next fall as Congress continues a full year of debate over the shipís future and the size of the nationís carrier fleet.
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US Navy – With the 5th Fleet: Mission is key, but reservists long for home
Virginian Pilot – Some Navy reservists are finding a desert deployment harder than they imagined.
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Iraq – Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam
Foreign Affairs – During Richard Nixon’s first term, when Melvin Laird served as secretary of defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success — until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.
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