US Navy – The US Navy has received approval to deploy its low frequency sonar on two ships.

• Washington Post: Navy Cleared To Use a Sonar System Despite Fears for Whales
  

Canadian Navy – HMCS Algonquin has captured two al-Qaida suspects at sea in the Arabian Gulf.

• Associated Press: Two al-Qaida suspects captured in Arabian Sea

Spanish Navy – Spain will not use force to recover an island it claims that is currently occupied by Morocco.

• Associated Press: Spain Won’t Use Force Against Morocco
  

US Navy – The life of a Navy wife, in 2002.

• Washington Post: Married to the Uniform

Background – Jordan – William Arkin on what Jordan’s role may be when Iraq is attacked.

• Washington Post Dot Mil: Hiding Jordan
  

US Marines – The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force has a new high tech Combat Operations Center that will allow it to oversee operations from around the world. Whether or not this is a good idea remains to be seen???

• San Diego Union Tribune: High-tech recruit on duty
  

US Navy – An update on the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS).

• Miami Herald: Pentagon eyes mini-subs to carry soldiers to beach

Background – – William Arkin on the good and the bad of the Bush Administration’s new policy of preemptive strategic offensives as outlined in its “Defense Planning Guidance” document.

• Los Angeles Times: The Best Defense

Spanish Navy – Spain has sent warships to its territories off Morroco to protest a Morrocan attempt at annexation.

• BBC: Spain rattles sabre at Morocco
  

• Voice of America: Spain, Morocco Try to Cool Down Island Dispute

Royal Navy – What will be the fate of the UK’s last World War II era aircraft carrier – the recently decomissioned Brazilian Minas Gerais.

• BBC: Time running out for warship
  

US Navy – The USS George Washington battlegroup is transiting the Suez Canal.

• Associated Press: Replacement Carrier Group Nears Gulf

Background – Taiwan – The US government has officially stated that China poses a grave military threat to Taiwan.

• BBC: US warns of danger to Taiwan
  

US Navy – An interview with the commanding officer of the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf.

• Sea Power: Let’s Go to Sea

Chinese Navy – China continues to try to encircle the US by acquiring port facilities at naval strategic choke points around the world.

• Washington Times: Inside the Ring

US Navy – The Naval Network Warfare Command is commissioned.

• Virginian Pilot: Navy unveils its network command
  

Russian Navy – A Russian ballistic missile submarine launches another satellite payload into orbit.

• Associated Press: Russia Launches Space Vehicle
  

Royal Navy – Repairs are underway aboard HMS Nottingham.

• BBC: Repairs begin on stricken Navy warship
  

Royal Marines – The commander of 3 Commando Brigade gives his opinion of what was achieved in Afghanistan.

• Ananova: Marine brigadier hits back at MoD critics

Background – Post-Saddam Iraq – The news this week has been buzzing with rumors of special operations already begun in Iraq, and an invasion of Iraq timed for early 2003. Here is a transcript of a recent Booknotes program on C-SPAN, featuring the author of “The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein.” The author explains in great detail what the world can expect to happen to Iraq after Saddam is deposed.

• Booknotes: The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein

Canadian Navy – HMCS St. John’s is helping to enforce the UN economic blockade against Iraq.

• Halifax Herald: Halifax Based Frigate Arrests Tankers Smuggling Oil

US Navy – Miscellaneous US naval aviation news.

• Sea Power: Aviation Programs Update

US Navy – Naval air is operating at an extremely high tempo.

• Virginian Pilot: Leaders see busy times for naval air
  

Canadian Navy – There are problems with the torpedo tubes in the Upholder-class submarines.

• Daily News: Sub’s torpedo tubes faulty

Canadian Navy – The role being played by Canada’s CP-140 maritime patrol aircraft in the war on terror.

• Halifax Herald: Aurora Contingent Home From Gulf Action
• Daily News: CFB Greenwood crews led navies to terrorist boats
  

Background – Afghanistan – Ralph Peters on why we should not let the mob rule Afghanistan.

• Wall Street Journal: A Mob Hit in Kabul

Royal Navy – The UK wants to fund its aircraft carrier purchase by cutting its purchase of Eurofighters.

• Daily Telegraph: Brown wants to cut order for ‘outdated’ Eurofighter

Background – Smuggling via Submersible – More on how drug cartels are employing submersibles and submarines.

• Business 2.0: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine, Inc.

Chinese Navy – Chinese and US ships have been recently jamming each others signals during exercises.

• The Straits Times: US, China ‘jammed each other’s signals’

Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan will receive the MK48 Mod4 torpedo for its submarines.

• Taipei Times: Navy long-time user of MK48 torpedoes

NAVINT – Anthony Preston’s miscellaneous naval news from the UK, France, Malaysia, Canada, Greece, and India.

• Sea Power: First Steel Cut at Lorient For French Horizon Frigate
  

Phillipine Navy – How the US aided the Phillipines in their at-sea interception of a top Abu Sayyaf leader at sea June 21.

• Washington Post: High Tech Tracks Philippine Rebels

Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – This year’s Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) are underway.

• Daily Yomiuri: RIMPAC drill scaled down

Royal Navy – HMS Nottingham, a Type-42 class destroyer, has run aground off of Australia.

• BBC: Inquiry into warship accident
  

• CNN: Australian navy sent to assist UK warship

Royal Navy – More details about terrorist attacks that were being planned against UK and US warships in the Strait of Gibraltar.

• The Age: Hunt turns to plot on warships
  

US Navy – The war on terror is furthering exacerbating the US Navy’s shortage of attack submarines for use in espionage missions.

• Washington Post: Espionage Demands Prod Navy on Sub Construction
  

Royal Marines – 45 Commando is on its way home.

• BBC: First marines arrive home
  

French Navy – Aircraft from the carrier Charles de Gaulle helped to sanitize airspace around India and Pakistan during their recent confrontation.

• Liberation: French jets patrolled coastline during standoff

Royal Marines – 45 Commando claims its newly modified SA80-A2 rifle still badly misfires.

• BBC: MoD investigates ‘faulty’ forces rifle
  

Russian Navy – Why are senior Russian military officials never punished for their misdeeds?

• Moscow Times: Still Cagey About the Kursk
  

US Navy – More about the sensor suite intended for CVN-77.

• Virginian Pilot:
  Navy chooses older systems for CVN-77 carrier
  

US Coast Guard – A closer look at the Deepwater contract.

• Aviation Week: Coast Guard Begins Makeover
  With Mammoth Contract

Chinese Navy – China is having problems operating its Kilo-class submarines.

• Taipei Times: China has major trouble with new Kilo submarines
  

Indonesia Navy – Most of Indonesia’s ships are not considered to be operational.

• The Straits Times: Indonesian navy ships not fit to fight, says chief

Singaporean Navy – CARAT exercises are being conducted between the navies of Singapore and the US.

• Reuters: Singapore, U.S. navies start 11-day exercise
  

Canadian Navy – More problems during testing of HMCS Corner Brook, Canada’s latest Upholder-class submarine.

• Globe and Mail: Another used sub runs into trouble

Russian Navy – The final verdict from Russia on the cause of the sinking of the Kursk in in: hydrogen peroxide fuel exploding in a 65-76 Kit (Whale) torpedo.

• BBC: Final report blames fuel for Kursk disaster
• Associated Press: Kursk accident caused by explosion of fuel in torpedo, commission member says

Background – Transformation – William Arkin on why the Pentagon’s Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation has been removed – his call for a force of 34 aircraft carriers to meet US requirements was his downfall.

• Washington Post Dot Mil: Who’s Afraid of PA&E?
  

Royal Navy – HMS Campbeltown makes a port of call in Aden.

• Associated Press: British Frigate Docks in Aden Port
  

South Korean Navy – A first-person account of the battle between North and South Korean gunboats.

• CNN: Sailor recounts bloody naval clash

South Korean Navy – South Korean and North Korean gunboats fought a pitched battle, resulting in casualties on both sides.

• BBC: US condemns N Korean ‘provocation’
• Washington Post: Korean Tensions Erupt in Sea Battle

Pakistani Navy – Pakistan would like to become more self-sufficient, in a naval sense.

• Dawn: Efforts on to expand maritime sector: CNS

Pakistani Navy – Pakistan is offering China listening posts on its territory in return for naval protection.

• The Hindu: Pak offers naval facilities to China

US Marines – How the US Marines will continue to seabase their forces in the future.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Seabasing: The Maritime Intermediate Support Base

US Navy – The Chinese are continuing their harrassment of US surveillance aircraft, including EP-3 and P-3 aircraft.

• Washington Times: Chinese jet fighters fly near U.S. spy plane

Royal Marines – 45 Commando is using roving checkpoints in their hunt for Al-Qaida members.

• Ananova: Marines use new tactics to stop al-Qaida

Indian Navy – Will India be purchasing Scorpene-class submarines from France?

• Agence France Press:
  India to order six submarines from France: Report
  

US Navy – The US Navy is being criticized for being too conservative in its design of CVN-77.

• Virginian Pilot: Navy is skimping on radar for carrier, House panel says
  

Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – The spy ship sunk last year has been found to have been armed.

• CNN: Missile found on N. Korean ‘spy boat’

US Navy – Iraq is moving its oil smuggling operations from tankers to wooden dhows.

• CNN:
  U.S., coalition forces target oil smuggling in Persian Gulf

• Associated Press: Iraqi oil smugglers now using dhows instead of tankers, U.S. says

Royal Marines – Spanish conspiracy theories about Gibraltar.

• BBC: Spanish landing ‘no mistake’
  

Russian Navy – Russia has no freedom of the press, when it comes to reporting naval or environmental news.

• Boston Globe: Russian journalist’s conviction stands
• Radio Free Europe: Russia: Military Journalist Pasko Loses Appeal

US Merchant Marine – How to help the US Merchant Marine survive.

• Sea Power: The Ten Percent Solution –
  A New Mission for the U.S.-Flag Merchant Marine
  

US Coast Guard – The Deepwater contract has been awarded.

• Jane’s: Coast Guard Awards Deepwater

US Coast Guard – Why Deepwater is important to the USCG and to the US.

• Washington Post: For the Coast Guard Fleet, A $15 Billion Upgrade

Thai Navy – Thailand may buy two frigates from the UK.

• Bangkok Post: Plan to buy British frigates

Argentinean Navy – An Argentine icebreaker is heading towards Antarctica to help free a trapped German ship.

• BBC: Icebreaker joins Antarctic rescue

Chinese Navy – China would like to buy 8 more Kilo-class submarines from Russia, armed with Klub anti-ship missiles. What China needs next is an over-the-horizon targeting system.

• Washington Post: Chinese plan big Russian arms deal

Royal Australian Navy – HMAS Arunta and HMAS Melbourne will soon be taking up station in the Persian Gulf.

• Australian Associated Press: Aussie frigate sails for Gulf

Italian Navy – Italy will purchase the Joint Strike Fighter, in its land-based and naval-based versions. The naval versions will presumeably replace its AV-8B Harriers on the Giuseppe Garibaldi.

• Reuters: Italy Backs U.S. Joint Strike Fighter, Eurofighter

Indonesia Navy – Indonesia’s navy wants to be less political and more professional.

• The Straits Times: No politics, says new Jakarta navy chief

Background – Flags of Convenience – One of the many reasons why flags of convenience are bad.

• International Herald Tribune: Raid at sea highlights flag abuses

Background – Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – Progress is being made on UAVs the size of flies.

• San Francisco Chronicle: Soaring achievement in spying
  UC Berkeley team creating ‘microfly’ to infiltrate enemies

Background – US Bases in the Persian Gulf – How the US is increasing its presence in the Persian Gulf, and in doing so making Saudi Arabia irrelevant to US defense interests.

• Wall Street Journal: U.S. military ramps up in Gulf

Royal Marines – Royal Marines on patrol in Afghanistan have discovered another large arms cache.

• BBC: Marines seize ‘Taleban’ arsenal
  

French Navy – The French frigate L.V. Le Henaff will make a port of call in Ghana.

• Accra Mail: French Navy ship to visit

US Marines – More about the current CARAT exercises in Malaysia.

• The Straits Times: No US base, but joint exercises are fine for KL

Russian Navy – The Russian Navy is interceding in a fishing dispute between Norway and Russia.

• Norway Post: Russian naval vessel on its way to Svalbard

Background – Iraq – William Arkin on how we need to absorb the lessons of the first Gulf War, as we go about planning the second – we need to be bolder in our thinking and planning. Take the lesson of Engagement Area Thomas, for example???

• Los Angeles Times: Gulf War Redux — The president seems determined to attack Iraq again. But have we fully grasped the lessons of the last time around?
  

US Marines – The US and Malaysian armed forces are conducting joint exercises.

• The Star: US-Mísia military exercise begins

US Navy – Military exercises will continue into the forseeable future without pause in the Phillipines with US and Phillipine forces.

• Manila Bulletin: Another joint Balikatan exercise set after July

Background – Electronic Warfare – Options for replacement of the US Navy’s EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft.

• Air Force: Next Steps in Electronic Attack

Phillipine Navy – Phillipine forces have killed the leader of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist organization at sea.

• CNN: Search for Abu Sayyaf leader’s body

US Navy – The US looks again to a catamaran design to replace the USS Inchon as a mine warfare command ship.

• Planned lease of anti-mine ship may open Navy to new designs

History – Cuban Missile Crisis – Did Russian submarines almost use nuclear-tipped torpedoes against US ships in 1962?

• Associated Press: Russian Book Looks at Missile Crisis