BBC – A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the ocean has been tested by US scientists.
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Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
Operations Other Than War – After Hard-Won Lessons, Army Doctrine Revised
New York Times – Michael Gordon writes about a new operations manual that elevates the stabilization of war-torn nations to the same importance as the defeat of enemies on the battlefield.
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Nuclear Warfare – A Strike in the Dark
New Yorker – Seymour Hersh on why did Israel bomb Syria?
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Columbian Navy – Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves
Washington Post – In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes — anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine.
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US Navy – Navy ordered to establish sonar-free zones to protect whales, dolphins
San Francisco Chronicle – For the second time this week, a federal court found today that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatened to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and ordered protective measures in several sensitive zones, including one near Monterey Bay.
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US Navy – White House Went Too Far in Sonar Case, Judge Rules
Washington Post – The Bush administration overreached when it sought to limit the Navy’s obligations under national environmental laws related to sonar training exercises off California, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
In a sharply worded decision that will keep the Navy from continuing a series of 14 planned exercises, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper wrote that the Navy and the administration had improperly declared that an emergency would be created if they had to accept court-mandated steps to minimize risk to whales and other sea mammals. Because no real emergency exists, she said, the White House cannot override her decisions and those of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
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Russian Navy – Heading Back Home: Kuznetsov En-Route to Kola Pensinsula
Defense Technology International – Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is returning home after its saber-rattling voyage into the Mediterranean and participation in naval live firing exercises near French and Spanish waters.
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US Coast Guard – New task for U.S. Coast Guard in Arctic's warming seas
Virginian Pilot – Itís namesake is one of the Coast Guardís most storied ships, but todayís Cutter Bear has colorful chapters all its own as it marks its silver anniversary.
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Air Warfare – Rex Replay
Air Force – Once again, as in 1938, the bombers show they can find ships at sea.
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US Navy – U.S. Navy aims to flex 'soft power'
Christian Science Monitor – Goodwill missions could become the Navy’s chief strategy in the war on terror.
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Geopolitics / China – The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive?
Foreign Affairs – China’s rise will inevitably bring the United States’ unipolar moment to an end. But that does not necessarily mean a violent power struggle or the overthrow of the Western system. The U.S.-led international order can remain dominant even while integrating a more powerful China — but only if Washington sets about strengthening that liberal order now.
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Russian Navy – Bear is Back: Russian Aircraft Carrier Operations off Gibraltar
Defense Technology International – Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov with its flight deck loaded with Su-33 Flanker fighters, Su-25 Frogfoot close air support aircraft and Ka-27 helix helicopters??? that scene could be witnessed off Gibraltar in January.
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Afghanistan – Think tank: Surge now needed in Afghanistan
Army Times – Sean Naylor writes that the American Enterprise Institute, the think tank that came up with the ìsurgeî strategy for Iraq, has just completed a re-evaluation of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and concluded that another surge of U.S. forces is required, this time into southern Afghanistan.
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Iraq – U.S. Commanders in Iraq Favor Pause in Troop Cuts
Washington Post – Tom Ricks writes that senior U.S. military commanders in Iraq say they want to freeze troop reductions starting this summer for at least a month, making it more likely that the next administration will inherit as many troops in Iraq as there were before President Bush announced a “surge” of forces a year ago.
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Royal Australian Navy – Admiral: May Need to Fight for Sea Control
Defense Technology International – Australia’s Chief of Navy warns that “enormous strategic change” taking place at the moment will have major implications for the maritime forces of Australia and its allies.
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Geopolitics – Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
New York Times Magazine – Just a few years ago, Americaís hold on global power seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while weíve been in Iraq ó and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a ë”second world.”
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US Navy – Why the Navy needs more ships
Armed Forces Journal – The Navy needs a larger number of ships, not only for winning a war at sea against a stronger opponent but also for carrying out diverse missions in peacetime, ranging from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, security assistance, enforcement of maritime agreements, counterpiracy, vessel traffic service, multinational exercises, countersmuggling and counterdrug, to regional deterrence through forward presence in selected parts of the worldís oceans.
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Information Warfare – The Dogs of Web War
Air Force – US armed forces face “peer” adversaries in only one area – military cyberspace.
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Iraq – War, Meet the 2008 Campaign
New York Times – Michael Gordon writes that for the past year, he has led a double existence, dividing his time between military reporting assignments in Iraq and tracking the campaign debate in the United States???Those were parallel universes, in which the discussion of the taxing road ahead and potential fall-back options were often so divergent that the generals and the politicians seemed not to be talking about the same war.
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Geopolitics / Democracy – Slow But Sure
Financial Times – Niall Ferguson writes: Has the democratic wave broken? Is the tide of political freedom now ebbing after the spectacular flow that began in 1989? Recent events on nearly every continent certainly give real cause for concern to those who dream of a world governed by the ballot box rather than the bullet. But they may also provide an overdue opportunity to think more realistically about the way the process of democratisation works.
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US Marines – Guam Braces for Peaceful Military Incursion
Washington Post – People on this faraway island — a U.S. territory 7,824 miles west of Los Angeles — delight in calling Guam the “tip of the spear” for its role defending U.S. interests in the Far East???The Pentagon has chosen Guam, a quirkily American place that marries the beauty of Bali with the banality of Kmart, as the prime location in the western Pacific for projecting U.S. military muscle.
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US Navy – Lincoln strike group begins sonar exercise
San Diego Union Tribune – Despite legal sparring between the Navy and environmentalists over sonar transmissions off San Diego and other parts of Southern California, a sonar exercise involving the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group began as scheduled yesterday.
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US Navy – Nimitz strike group embarks on special deployment
San Diego Union Tribune – The Nimitz strike group is filling in for the Japan-based Kitty Hawk while that aircraft carrier undergoes several months of maintenance.
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US Navy – U.S. military must consider Japan base's impact on marine mammal
San Diego Union Tribune – A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday to consider the impact of a proposed military base in Japan on an endangered marine mammal revered in Japanese culture.
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Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan Navy Resumes Anti-Terror Mission
Associated Press – A Japanese navy destroyer departed Thursday to resume the country’s anti-terror mission in the Indian Ocean after a divisive battle in parliament caused a three-month suspension.
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