Naval War College Review – Another use of nuclear weapons, for the first time since Nagasaki, is far from inevitable, but giving advance thought to the ways it could happen and to the policies that would be appropriate in response may be essential to heading it off.
Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
Terrorism – Attacks Bear Earmarks Of Evolving Al Qaeda
Washington Post – A look at what Al Qaeda is morphing into, and how that new form relates to yesterdays terror attacks in London.
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US Marines – Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane
Wired – 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true.
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History – The Harrowing Origins of 'Raiders from the Deep'
Sea Power – The early days of Marine Force Reconnaissance.
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Pakistani Navy – Pakistan to get Chinese frigates by 2013
Pakistan Times – China will provide four F-22P advanced quality frigates to Pakistan by 2013, meeting its defence requirement. Of these, three will be manufactured in China, while one frigate will be built in Pakistan.
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US Marines – An Interview With the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps
Leatherneck – As the war on terror continues, the Commandant’s proud message is that the Marines are doing an “unbelievable job.”
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US Marines – A Vehicle That Does It All
Sea Power – As the Iraq War exposes inadequacies, Marine Corps officials ponder the serviceís future tactical wheeled vehicle needs
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Doing it Right
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind shows how the US is waging Fourth Generation Warfare successfully.
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US Marines – I'm Not Going to Come Home': One Marine's Third Iraq Tour
Washington Post – A look at the story of one Marine who was killed while on his third tour in Iraq.
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Transformation – Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change to Deter Terror
New York Times – The Pentagon’s most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.
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Port Security – 121,000 Tracks
Sea Power – 121,000 merchant vessels worldwide. Nine million cargo containers entering U.S. ports annually. U.S. Navy and government officials fear seagoing cargo vessels will make a perfect platform for another terrorist attack against the United States. As a preventative measure, they want to identify and track all merchant ships with the precision characteristic of the Navyís monitoring of Soviet submarines during the Cold War.
Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM-1A Fourth Generation War
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind posts the first draft of his Field Manual of Fourth Generation Warfare (Microsoft Word format).
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Terrorism – Help From France Key In Covert Operations
Washington Post – France and the US are fighting terror together, much more closely than generally believed — Funded largely by the CIA, France’s Alliance Base analyzes transnational movement of suspects and develops operations to catch them.
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US Marines – Marines to Help Iraqi Troops Police Iraq
Associated Press – An Iraqi army battalion backed by U.S. Marines will be stationed in Hit, making it the first deployment to regularly police a city in the volatile western Anbar province
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Geopolitics / Terrorism – Terrorism and the New Security Dilemma
Naval War College Review – The reliability of interstate balances of power is declining; the capacity of the ìstates systemî to provide security is deteriorating; the state itself is coming under increasing centrifugal pressure from both outside and inside, from above and from below; and the reshaping of the wider political environment in reaction to complex globalization remains rudimentary and uneven. We can expect substate and cross-border destabilization and violence, including but certainly not confined to terrorism, to become increasingly endemic.
Geopolitics / United Nations – "In Larger Freedom:" Decision Time at the UN
Foreign Affairs – Kofi Annan says dealing with today’s threats requires broad, deep, and sustained global cooperation. Thus the states of the world must create a collective security system to prevent terrorism, strengthen nonproliferation, and bring peace to war-torn areas, while also promoting human rights, democracy, and development. And the UN must go through its most radical overhaul yet.
US Marines – Frustrated marines chase army of ghosts
Daily Telegraph – With US Marine patrols on the Iraqi-Syrian border as they play cat and mouse with insurgents.
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Iraqi Navy – New navy already has its sea legs
Washington Times – The new Iraqi navy, reformed only two years ago after its destruction during 12 years of war and sanctions, has begun conducting independent patrols as part of the multinational effort to protect Iraq’s offshore oil platforms and its ports of Umm Qasr and Khawr Al Zubayr.
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History – We can't afford to forget Trafalgar
Daily Telegraph – John Keegan opines on the significance of Trafalgar to England.
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History – World armada recalls a day of victory and death at sea
The Times – Britain celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
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US Marines – Along the Syria-Iraq Border, Victory Is Fleeting in an Effort to Rout Out Foreign Fighters
New York Times – Another look at the paucity of Marines patroling Iraq’s border with Syria.
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Geopolitics / Freedom – Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?
New York Times – Around the world (and among some critics at home), America’s long-held desire to export liberty and democracy is called hubristic, messianic, imperialistic and worse. But try imagining a world without it???
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US Navy – The Unraveling and Revitalization of U.S. Navy Antisubmarine Warfare
Naval War College Review – Antisubmarine warfare in the U.S. Navy has been allowed to deteriorate since the end of the Cold War. The growing threat demands that ASW be restored to health, and the Navy appears to be on the brink of a real commitment. However, the pace of revitalization will be significantly less than it needs to be if sustained support, effective organization, and ample resources are not forthcoming.
Iraq – Two years on, the echoes of Vietnam are getting louder
Guardian – Military historian Max Hasting’s view of the situation on the ground in Iraq today.
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Wargaming – Outcome Grim at Oil War Game
Washington Post – The United States would be all but powerless to protect the American economy in the face of a catastrophic disruption of oil markets, high-level participants in a war game concluded yesterday.
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