U.S. Marines – Washington Post: US Kosovo Reinforcements Considered – The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked onboard the USS Bataan (LHD5) Amphibious Ready Group, may get the call to go ashore.

Piracy – Sunday Telegraph: Retired Gurkhas enlist to fight pirate attacks

U.S. Navy – U.S. Navy: Status of the U.S. Navy as of February 22, 2000

U.S. Navy – Inside China Today: No Plans for Naval Deployment Near Taiwan

Royal Navy – MSNBC: Is Britain’s Royal Navy Out of Fuel?

U.S. Navy – BBCNews: Russian Tanker Leaves Oman

Royal Navy – BBCNews: French Debut for Trident Submarine

Russian Navy – Russia Today: Russia Sends Intelligence Ship To Med, Gulf

Chinese Navy – Inside China Today: China To Get Second Russian Destroyer This Year

U.S. Navy – Washington Post: High Prices Spur Iraq Oil Smuggling

U.S. Navy – Washington Post: Seized Russian Tanker in Oman

U.S. Navy – Washington Post: Russian Tanker Carried Iraqi Oil

Welcome to the first day of NOSI (Naval Open Source Intelligence). NOSI is intended to be a digital library of operational naval news from around the world which is gathered from open source intelligence.