Leatherneck – The Corps’ heavy lift helicopter workhorse, the CH-53E Super Stallion, is getting long in the tooth, and plans are to move it to pasture.
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Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
US Navy – Domain Defense
Sea Power – The Navy and Coast Guard began years ago to devise a national strategy for maritime security based on improved global intelligence.
US Navy – War with China?
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind’s analysis of Robert Kaplan’s recent article “How We Would Fight China.”
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US Navy – A Smarter Scout
Sea Power – Linked to a new communications network and fitted with torpedoes and other munitions, the Fire Scout would be a multirole weapon.
US Navy – Retired carrier USS America sunk off Atlantic coast
Virginian Pilot – The retired aircraft carrier America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests.
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Geopolitics / Law – New Rules for War?
Naval War College Review – The overarching factors of asymmetry and moralism dominate the political discourse and frame the understanding of Americans. From those factors emerge specific issues of real ethical concern. Just war principles and the law of armed conflict help, but both leave room for interpretation. Ultimately, these issues require moral reasoning and reflection.
Intelligence – The Walkers: a tale of espionage
Virginian Pilot – Twenty years ago today, Robert W. Hunter sprang from the shadows of a hotel hallway and made American history. He arrested a retired Navy warrant officer, John A. Walker Jr., for espionage, breaking what would eventually be called the most damaging Soviet spy ring in U.S. history.
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US Navy – Paper is out, as cruiser's navigation goes digital
Virginian Pilot – After hundreds of years of using nautical charts made from parchment to plastic, the Navy is preparing to throw them all overboard.
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US Navy – Inside the Ring
US Navy – Where will the US forward deploy a second carrier in the Pacific – in Hawaii or Guam?
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History – Cagey Civil War Commando Laid Groundwork for Naval Special Warfare
Sea Power – Special operations in the Civil War.
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Russian Navy – Russian Patrol Vessel, Frigate Projects Move Forward
Sea Power – The latest naval news from the navies of Russia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Iraq, and Portugal.
US Navy – How We Would Fight China
Operations Other Than War – A Quiet Transformation
Washington Post – As the United States was struggling with the postwar reconstruction of Iraq, the historian Niall Ferguson published a book arguing that America needed the modern equivalent of the old British Colonial Office to build political stability in far-flung places. The U.S. military was good at breaking things, he suggested in “Colossus,” but not so good at putting them back together. A look at the Defense Science Board’s study titled “Transition to and from Hostilities,” a blueprint for changes across the government that would give the United States the nation-building capability it has too often lacked in Iraq.
The full report is here: Transition to and from Hostilities (PDF format)
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US Navy – Adrift 500 Feet Down, a Minute Was an Eternity
New York Times – A closer look at events aboard the USS San Francisco, after its fatal collision with an undersea mountain.
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Canadian Navy – Navy submarine returns to sea
CBC – The first of four Canadian navy submarines has returned to sea, after they were all grounded in the wake of the deadly fire aboard HMCS Chicoutimi last fall.
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US Navy – UAV Tests its Sea Legs
Sea Power – The Global Hawk has performed well on missions over land, but has not been assigned to long-range surveillance of the world’s oceans.
Nuclear Warfare – Not Just a Last Resort?
Washington Post – A fascinating article by William Arkin on STRATCOM’s new mission of global strike – what it means and how they intend to carry it out.
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US Marines – Looking for Battle, Marines Find That Foes Have Fled
Washington Post – Another look at last weeks battles along Iraq’s border with Syria.
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US Navy – For Shipyard and Region, Shock and Vow to Fight
New York Times – A look at the fate of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – The Reality Gap
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on the disconnect between the Pentagon and reality today.
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US Marines – U.S. Marines unit begin landing at Kuwaiti naval base for possible deployment in Iraq
Associated Press – The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, aboard the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group, goes ashore in Kuwait.
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Royal Navy – Safety fears over N-sub berths
Scotsman – Nuclear submarines using little-known Highland berths present a risk of radiation leaks, an official safety assessment seen by The Scotsman has found.
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US Navy – Means of Control
Sea Power – The Navy and Army are developing common ways to manage control of unmanned vehicles and systems of many types.
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Transformation – Military Is Consolidating Into Large Installations
Washington Post – In its first round of base closures in a decade, the Pentagon announced yesterday a sweeping plan to close or reduce forces at 62 major bases and nearly 800 minor facilities — consolidating military capabilities in large installations that are best equipped to train and quickly deploy forces in wartime.
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US Marines – U.S. Ends Iraqi Border Offensive
Washington Post – U.S. Marines rumbled back across the Euphrates River on a floating bridge Saturday, ending a week-long offensive against foreign fighters that had taken U.S. forces within two miles of the Syrian border. Marines said the sweep north of the Euphrates, called “Operation Matador,” was a success. Involving more than 1,000 Marines, it was the largest sustained U.S. offensive since the assault on Fallujah six months ago.
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