Washington Post – A look at the situation the Marines face in Anabar province.
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
US Marines – Let's Be Honest About the Marines in Hadithah
Washington Post – William Arkin puts the situation in Hadithah in perspective.
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Operations Other Than War – U.S. military sends 100 medics to treat Indonesia quake victims
Jakarta Post – The U.S. Navy and Air Force plans to send 100 doctors, nurses and medical technicians to Indonesia to treat victims of the deadly earthquake that struck Central Java.
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Israeli Navy – Israel part of NATO naval exercise
Jerusalem Post – Israel bolstered its defense ties with NATO on Monday after announcing that the navy would participate, for the first time, in a summertime exercise with the Western military alliance.
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US Marines – Coverup of Iraq Incident By Marines Is Alleged
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports on the alleged massacre at Haditha.
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US Navy – Navy developing nanotech to improve ships
Associated Press – With an eye to developing faster ships, the U.S. Navy has teamed up with a New York company and the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop an electronics system that will sharply reduce the size and weight of a warship’s motors.
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Wargaming – Baghdad, USA
Wired – Roadside bombs. Hostile insurgents. 1,200 extras in Arab dress. Welcome to Louisiana and the Army camp known as the Box, where the violence is fake but the fear is for real.
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Ground Warfare – Bringing It All Back Home
New York Times – When Chuck Norris joined the National Guard, he wasn’t expecting to end up in one of the worst corners of the Sunni Triangle. Now he’s home in Pennsylvania, with his fellow guardsmen and memories he just can’t shake.
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Russian Navy – Russia launches research satellite from submarine
Xinhua – Russia launched a research satellite on board a Shtil rocket from a Northern Fleet submarine at the Barents Sea.
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Geopolitics / Latin America – Latin America's Left Turn
Foreign Affairs – With all the talk of Latin America’s turn to the left, few have noticed that there are really two lefts in the region. One has radical roots but is now open-minded and modern; the other is close-minded and stridently populist. Rather than fretting over the left’s rise in general, the rest of the world should focus on fostering the former rather than the latter — because it is exactly what Latin America needs.
US Marines – 'Worst war crime' committed by US in Iraq
New York Times – A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians, Congressional, military and Pentagon officials said Thursday.
The Times – The Marines and a ‘massacre’ in Iraq.
Daily Telegraph – ‘Worst war crime’ committed by US in Iraq.
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US Navy – Rome speeds up leaving of U.S. subs
Washington Times – Italy’s new center-left government will accelerate planned closure of a U.S. nuclear submarine base on the northern coast of the island of Sardinia amid fears nearby residents suffer higher-than-average cancer rates.
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Intelligence – Private Jihad
New Yorker – A look at the woman who became a freelance spy. An example of open-source intelligence in action???
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Royal Australian Navy – Australia rushes to troubled East Timor
Christian Science Monitor – East Timor’s call for help Wednesday opened a new mission for an already stretched Australian military.
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Malaysian Navy – Submarine Sonar Operators Play It By The Ear
Bernama – A look at the training required to take the Malaysian Navy’s new submarine, the Agosta-class Ouessant, to sea.
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US Navy – Carrier GW leaves its mark on a region
Virginian Pilot – The USS George Washington is ending her deployment to the Caribbean Sea.
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Malaysian Navy – First-Time Submariners, But Adapting Well
Bernama – Life aboard the Ouessant, the Agosta-class submarine used by Malaysia’s first batch of submariners for initial training.
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US Navy – The Aegis of America
Asahi Shimbun – A look at the US Navy’s role in Japan.
Ashai Simbun – Yokosuka lets U.S. Navy put its best ships forward.
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Afghanistan – We Were Abandoned
Macleans – An elite unit of Canadian snipers went from standouts to outcasts — victims, many say, of a witch hunt driven by jealousy and fear.
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Afghanistan – US sets up £215m deal for Afghan arms – from Russia
Daily Telegraph – American defence officials have secretly requested a “prodigious quantity” of ammunition from Russia to supply the Afghan army in case a Democrat president takes over in Washington and pulls out US troops.
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Afghanistan – Navy's role in Afghanistan grows
Virginian Pilot – With the war in Iraq straining U.S. Army and Marine units, missions in Afghanistan are increasingly being turned over to the Navy and Air Force.
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Miscellaneous – Full steam ahead: Brussels draws up plan for 'EU navy'
Daily Telegraph – The European Commission has drawn up plans to set up a European coastguard, which critics fear is a back-door attempt by Brussels to create an EU navy with its own powers to stop and search shipping.
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Wargaming – The Epistemology of War Gaming
US Naval War College Review – War games can produce valid knowledge, useful for planning and decisions, but they can also produce “valid-looking garbage.” There are principles that can help users and analysts tell the difference and avoid the pitfalls, but if game results are to merit reliably the confidence they are now given, the craft of gaming must become a profession.
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Information Warfare – Bloodless theories, bloody wars
Armed Forces Journal – Ralph Peters is skeptical about effects-based operations.
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US Navy – U.S. navy to beef up presence in Asian waters , report says
San Diego Union Tribune – The Pacific fleet of the U.S. Navy aims to step up the number of submarines and aircraft carriers in Asian waters to patrol the region and ensure security, its commander said on Friday.
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