BBC – Two Royal Navy vessels have been dispatched to Lebanon, where they may be called into action to rescue stranded Britons. What are their capabilities?
Daily Telegraph – HMS Illustrious sent to Lebanon as Britons told: get ready to flee.
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Daily Archives: July 16, 2006
Fourth Generation Warfare – Counterinsurgency by the Book
Slate – Two messages flutter between the lines of the U.S. Army’s new field manual on counterinsurgency wars, its first document on the subject in 20 years.
One is that Pentagon planning for the Iraq war’s aftermath was at least as crass, inattentive to the lessons of history, and contrary to basic political and military principles as the war’s harshest critics have charged. The other is that as a nation we may simply be ill-suited to fight these kinds of wars.
The manual is found here: Counterinsurgency FM3-24FD.
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Geopolitics / Iraq – Saddam's Delusions: The View From the Inside
Foreign Affairs – This distillation of the Pentagon’s secret study of Saddam Hussein’s regime, based on analysis of captured documents and prisoner interviews, has already rewritten the history of the war. See for yourself what made Saddam tick, why he was shocked by the American invasion, and what he was actually doing with WMD.
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NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence™ 