Indian Navy – India makes a port of call visit to Israel.

• Jerusalem Post: Indian Navy calls on Haifa today

US Navy – What is entailed in guarding US cargo ships at the Kuwaiti port of Port Ash Shuayba.

• Virginian Pilot: Local sailors to shoulder burden of guarding Kuwaiti ports

US Navy – The USS John C. Stennis battlegroup heads to the Persian Gulf.

• San Diego Union Tribune: Carrier group to leave S.D. on deployment

US Navy – The USS Belleau Wood expeditionary strike group is about to head to the Gulf.

• San Diego Union Tribune: First wave of strike group set for Iraq

US Navy – On May 29, a powerful new surface combatant will be commissioned and join the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It is outfitted with new radar designed to detect and track deadly sea-skimming missiles in cluttered, near-shore environments. It also will carry the first integrated unmanned surface vehicle of its kind in the surface Navy. And its cutting-edge combat system will harness the horsepower of commercial computer processors.

• Sea Power: Bristling With New Gear, USS Pinckney Joins Pacific Fleet

US Marines – Since we live in a less than perfect world, sometimes it pays to learn from othersí admitted mistakes.

• Marine Corps Gazette: CommandóSome of My Bad Calls

US Coast Guard – The Coast Guard is four years away from fielding its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), one that promises to revolutionize the way it patrols the seas. The swift new UAV will enable a Coast Guard cutter to exponentially increase the ocean area it can search.

• Sea Power: Eagle Eye Tiltrotor UAV Will Bolster Coast Guardís Sea Search Capability

US Coast Guard – The year 2003 was a watershed for todayís Coast Guard. The Coast Guardís roles as a military service, as a federal law-enforcement agency, as a regulatory authority, and as a member of the new Department of Homeland Security place it squarely at the center of national initiatives to reduce security risks to our nation.

• US Naval War College Review: Change and Continuity – The U.S. Coast Guard Today

Background – Iraq – Following up on remarks given to the board and staff of Center for Defense Information, Gen. Zinni candidly went on the record in a question and answer session. He discussed the current state of affairs in Iraq and potential solutions to the ever-growing quagmire.

• Center for Defense Information: Q&A with Gen. Anthony Zinni, Former Director of USCENTCOM

US Navy – In late September and early October, two experimental vehicles will come together ó probably at the Navyís test ranges off Southern California ó for a series of demonstrations that will comprise a snapshot of the fast, highly automated platforms indicative of what Navy senior officials envision for the 21st century.

• Sea Power: Fire Scout UAV is Poised as Sensor, Shooter for Littoral Combat Ship

Background – History – “As far as I know, the guns at Filipstad are the only ones of their kind left in the world today. And what guns they are. Two 15-inch, cast-iron, muzzle-loaded smoothboresó”Dahlgrens”óeach weighing some 42,000 pounds (21 tons) and capable of firing a 450-pound solid shot. They were the terror of the American Civil War. So what are these mammoth specimens doing in Filipstad, V‰rmland, in rural Sweden?”

• Internet Journal of Naval History: The Guns at Filipstad: Some Reflections on the John Ericsson Bicentennial

Background – Afghanistan – An analysis of some of the possible policies for the US to pursue in Afghanistan.

• US Army War College Parameters: Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity?

French Navy – France rescues a stricken ferry off the Ivory Coast.

• BBC: French rescue stricken sea ferry

US Navy – Now that the Shadow, Dragon Eye and Global Hawk have proved in Iraq how much unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can contribute to the fight, the question for the Navy is how the different services can use them to contribute to each other.

• Sea Power: Services Wrestle With the Challenge of UAV Intelligence Interoperability

US Marines – Joint Close Air Support training should be transformed to correct procedural deficiencies.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Joint Close Air Support Training Transformation

US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk is patroling off of Taiwan.

• Taipei Times: Carrier patrol normal: admiral

US Coast Guard – The Coast Guardís intelligence branch is undergoing an unprecedented expansion as it aims to solidify its role in the national intelligence arena.

• Sea Power: Maritime ëFusioní Centers Expand Coast Guard Intelligence Capabilities

US Marines – The Joint National Training Capability will provide new training venues.

• Marine Corps Gazette: How the Joint National Training Capability Will Help Transform Marine Corps Training

Pakistani Navy – Pakistan will buy 4 frigates from China.

• APP: China to provide four warships to Pakistan

German Navy – The European shipbuilding industry begins to consolidate.

• Financial Times: Germany plays at battleships

US Marines – The violence at al Fallujah, Iraq, which in April drew the 1st Marine Division into a deadly street fight, highlighted weaknesses in the U.S. and coalition forcesí intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for supporting urban operations.

• Sea Power: Urban Operations Challenge Shows Limits of U.S., Allied ISR Capability

US Navy – An address by former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at the U.S. Naval Institute 130th Annual Meeting and Annapolis Naval History Symposium in 2004.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Our Enemy Is Not Terrorism

Background – Iraq – An excellent article on a possible exit strategy for Iraq by Peter W. Galbraith, the current US Ambassador to Croatia. According to Thomas Ricks, this is being widely circulated in the US military.

• New York Review of Books: How to Get Out of Iraq

US Navy – With the pilots aboard the USS George Washington, in the Persian Gulf.

• Virginian Pilot: Pilotsí missions show might, not fight

US Navy – When the U.S. Navyís first integrated power system (IPS)/electric drive warship arrives in 2011 as the DD(X), the service will mark a technological breakthrough that not only signals a new era for naval engineering, but provides huge amounts of electrical power for uses once considered fanciful, such as free electron lasers, high-powered microwaves and electromagnetic rail guns.

• Sea Power: Electric Warship Heralds Evolution in Weapon Technologies

Background – Intelligence – A brief course that is based on Naval Doctrine Publication 2 – Naval Intelligence. It addresses the broad scope of Naval Intelligence, the definition, purpose, fundamentals, intelligence cycle, coordination, training, and readiness to meet future challenges and support to operating forces. It describes the ways Naval Intelligence supports military planning for routine peacetime operations, operations other than war and combat, and identifies specific challenges for Naval Intelligence in the future.

• US Navy: NAVEDTRA 13159 – Naval Intelligence

US Marines – When Marines prepared to jump off in the initial attack against Saddamís forces in miserable weather last year, the Corpsí leadership knew they had a problem. It was not the hail, driving rain or Iraqi bayonets that concerned them. It was logistics.

• Sea Power: Marine Corps Plans to Revamp Outmoded Logistics System

Background – Iraq – Seymour Hersh states that the roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeldís decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of elite combat units, and hurt Americaís prospects in the war on terror.

• The New Yorker: The Gray Zone

Background – Iraq – Former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Zinni, outlines a 10-point critique of the vital mistakes the United States made leading up to and during the war in Iraq. A brilliant and insightful analysis by someone with impeccable credentials???

• Center for Defense Information: Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.) Remarks at CDI Board of Directors Dinner, May 12, 2004

Royal Navy – The Joint Strike Fighter is overweight – which has severe implications for the Royal Navy.

• Daily Telegraph: Britain’s new US-built jets are ‘too heavy to land safely’

US Navy – The Navy’s air-to-air refueling needs are not being met by the Air Force.

• Sea Power: Naval Air Refueling Needs Deferred in Air Force Tanker Plan

US Navy – Do small navies have a role to play in network-centric warfare?

• US Naval War College Review: Small Navies Do Have a Place in Network-Centric Warfare

Background – Iraq – Will moderate Iraqis embrace democracyóor Islamist radicalism?

• The New Yorker: Caught in the Crossfire

US Coast Guard – The Coast Guard is reorganizing its command chain at the nationís largest ports to ensure that a single commander is responsible for all missions and operations in the area.

• Sea Power: Collins Shakes Up Command Chain With Six New Sectors in 2004

Background – Immigration – Another look at the new book by Samuel Huntington entitled “Who Are We?”

• Foreign Affairs: Native Son: Samuel Huntington Defends the Homeland

Background – History – This little-known leatherneck expert in Arab culture and language made significant contributions to Corps and country, both in uniform and out.

• Leatherneck: And a Few Marines: Colonel William A. Eddy

Background – History – A look at communications during the Age of Sail.

• Sea Power: Signal Communications Advanced During the Age of Sail

US Navy – The US now can board over half the world’s merchant vessels at sea.

• Daily Telegraph: Panama to join US war on arms trade

US Coast Guard – Enforcement powers remain murky as port security duties add to serviceís mission

• Sea Power: Coast Guard is Seeking Broader Authority to Make Arrests on Land

US Marines – An overview of the Marine Corps University.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Marine Corps Universityís Role in Developing Leaders for the 21st Century

Background – Geopolitics – An indepth analysis of Samuel Huntington’s new book, titled “Who Are We? The Challenges to Americaís National Identity”, and how it relates to his previous book, “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.”

• The New Yorker: Patriot Games

Royal Navy – The UK surface fleet is to lose 20% of its ships.

• Daily Telegraph: Forces face ‘ruthless’ cuts as MoD seeks to save £1bn

US Coast Guard – The latest on the Deepwater Program.

• Sea Power: Coast Guard Mulls Major Changes To Deepwater Program Requirements

Background – Iraq – Seymour Hersh looks at what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison, and how it is related to the flaws in the American war plan.

• The New Yorker: Torture at Abu Ghraib
• The New Yorker: Chain of Command

US Navy – A missing unmanned submarine that eluded the U.S. Navy for a week was found Tuesday by a man strolling along a beach in western Norway.

• Associated Press: Runaway U.S. mini-sub found on Norwegian beach

US Navy – Another way for the Navy to save money – use civilians instead of sailors to man its ships.

• Associated Press: Hoping to cut costs, Navy experiments with civilians on warship

US Coast Guard – An interview with the program director of the Deepwater Program.

• Sea Power: Stillman: ëRuthless Executioní Is Key To Keeping Deepwater On Course

US Navy – Expeditionary Strike Groups are exiled in the Far East, in the author’s opinion.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Expeditionary Strike Groups Are Misaligned

US Navy – Pacific Command has undertaken one of the most ambitious and complicated ventures in the war on terrorism as it seeks to prevent seaborne terrorist and criminal assaults on nations bordering the Pacific and Indian oceans.

• Washington Times: Navy launches vast maritime security plan

German Navy – A German submarine is ensnared by a fishing trawler.

• BBC: Danish fishing trawler nets sub

US Marines – The latest on the MV-22 Osprey program.

• Sea Power: V-22 Osprey Team Focuses on January Operational Evaluation

US Marines – An interview with the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

• Leatherneck: An Interview with the 33rd CMC, General Michael Hagee

Background – Iraq – Thomas Ricks writes how senior US officers feel they may be winning battles but losing the war???the beginning of a revolt of the generals?

• Washington Post: Dissension Grows in Senior Ranks On War Strategy

US Navy – A look at what the Aerial Common Sensor program will mean to the Navy.

• Sea Power: Platform May Be the Key to Aerial Common Sensor Decision

US Marines – Here are the Marines’ Small Wars Manuals, in 1940 and 2003 editions. Each is in PDF format.

• US Marine Corps Small Wars Center of Excellence: 1940 Small Wars Manual and 2003 Small Wars Manual

US Marines – The Marines are now conducting operations inside Afghanistan.

• Reuters: U.S. Marine Killed by Suspected Afghan Militants

US Navy – An indepth discussion of the Littoral Combat Ship.

• Sea Power: New Realities Mean the Navy Must Dominate in the Littoral Future Family of Ships Will Counter Terroristsí Tactics, Provide Safe Haven in Theater

US Navy – “Where,” it has been asked, “is the theory of space power? Where is the Mahan for the final frontier?” Both can be found in the past. The theory of space power is implicit in thinking about the maritime environment, and its exemplar is the early-twentieth-century theorist Sir Julian Corbett.

• US Naval War College Review: Corbett in Orbit – A Maritime Model for Strategic Space Theory

Chinese Navy – A look at the Chinese Navy’s new fast attack craft.

• StrategyPage: New Chinese Stealthy Fast Attack Craft

US Navy – James F. Dunnigan explains what went wrong about the USS John F. Kennedy.

• StrategyPage: Why The Chiefs Run the Ships

US Navy – The latest naval news from around the fleet.

• Sea Power: Northrop Grumman Jamming System to Equip EA-18G EW Jet

Background – History – On Christmas Day 1914, an audacious British air attack on a Zeppelin base in northern Germany caught the Germans with their defenses down.

• Aviation History: Britain’s Bold Strike From the Sea

Background – History – From politics to intoxication, naval terminology has filtered into every area of modern discourse. The nautical roots of such common phrases as ìclear the deck,î ìtook the wind out of my sailsî and ìwhen my ship comes inî are obvious. However, the impact of naval life runs far deeper than a few salty terms.

• Sea Power: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — How Naval History Helped Shape the English Language

Background – Terrorism – Another look at terrorism’s origins.

• US Army War College Parameters: The Origins of the New Terrorism

US Marines – The 11th and 24th Marine Expeditionary Units will head to Iraq this summer.

• Washington Post: U.S. Troop Levels in Iraq to Remain High

US Navy – We have brushed aside battlefield resolution and action and allowed images of victimization to take their place.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Why Are Victims Our Only War Heroes?

International Navies – The latest naval news from the UK, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, India, and Australia.

• Sea Power: Britain, France May Cooperate on Aircraft Carrier Programs

Background – Iraq – James F. Dunnigan debunks some of the myths of Iraq.

• StrategyPage: The Myths of Iraq

Background – Islam – Bernard Lewis talks about his seventy years spent studying the Middle Eastóand his thoughts on the region’s future

• The Atlantic: Islam’s Interpreter

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US Navy – Another way to look at how the Navy and the whales can coexist in peace.

• Sea Power: Collaboration is Key to Saving Whales, Supporting Our Sailors

US Marines – This is the third of a three-part series on security and stabilization operations (SASO) during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Part III: Tikrit, South to Babylon

US Marines – James F. Dunningan on the importance of snipers in urban combat.

• StrategyPage: Snipers and Sharpshooters Rule the Battlefield

Background – Iraq – William Lind on how the US may be finally making some wise choices in Iraq.

• Defense and the National Interest: Back From The Brink?

Background – Iraq – Niall Ferguson consels patience in Iraq.

• Washington Post: Success Requires Patience

US Marines – The situation in Fallujah is not working out right???

• Washington Post: U.S. Plan for Fallujah Hits Snag

US Navy – Opposition grows to a proposed new Navy fighter field in North Carolina.

• Washington Post: Plan for Landing Strip Turns Into a Super Hornet’s Nest

International Navies – The latest naval news from Iraq, Chile, India, the UK, and China.

• Sea Power: Iraqi Coastal Defense Force Takes Shape Around Patrol Boats

Background – Terrorism – Michael Ignatieff on what it will cost us to succeed in the war on terror.

• New York Times Magazine: Lesser Evils

US Navy – The USS Boxer returns from a deployment to the Persian Gulf.

• San Diego Union Tribune: Amphibious assault ship Boxer returns from Mideast

US Marines – The Marines are about to deploy a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Iraq, the Silver Fox.

• Copley News Service: Marines slated to get new unmanned planes

US Marines – The latest from Fallujah.

• Washington Post: ‘We Won’: Fallujah Rejoices in Withdrawal

US Navy – Naval news from around the defense industry.

• Sea Power: NASSCO Nets Contract for Two Additional T-AKE Ships

US Navy – It has been, since Vietnam, conventional wisdom that the American public will not accept military casualties. There is, however, no evidence that the public is intrinsically casualty averse. It is a myth that distorts policy making and execution, and it is a issue that in itself has no place in professional military advice and judgment.

• US Naval War College Review: The Casualty-Aversion Myth

Chinese Navy China makes an unusual port call in Hong Kong.

• Associated Press: China Sails Warships Into Hong Kong

US Marines – The Marines pull back from Fallujah.

• Washington Post: Marines Begin Pulling Back From Fallujah
• The Times: Marines aghast at order to lift siege of Fallujah

US Navy – American commanders expect that the Arab terrorists or Iraqi insurgents behind Saturdayís unsuccessful suicide attacks on offshore Iraqi oil facilities will attempt more such boat bombings in the coming weeks.

• Virginian Pilot: Boat bombings herald new style of fighting in waters off Iraq

US Navy – Naval news from around the fleet.

• Sea Power: 2005 Budget Plan Funds Nine Ships; Outlook is for 17 New Ships in 2009

Background – History – With Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship dead in the water, the British had apparently won the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. But then the quick-thinking American commander turned the tables and snatched an astounding victory in the bloodiest naval fight of the War of 1812.

• MHQ: Perry’s Miraculous Victory

Background – American Empire – From Washington to Baghdad, the debate over American empire is back. Five new books weigh in, some celebrating the imperial project as the last best hope of humankind, others attacking it as cause for worry. What they all fail to understand is that U.S. power is neither as great as most claim nor as dangerous as others fear.

• Foreign Affairs: Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order

Royal Navy – The crew of HMS Trafalgar are cleared of mutiny.

• The Times: Crew in nuclear sub are cleared of mutiny

US Marines – A complete change of plan for the Marines – advocating the development of an Iraqi militia to take over in Fallujah. Taking a page from the “Small Wars” Manual?

• Washington Post: Marines Plan Handoff To Militia in Fallujah

US Marines – The authors offer recommendations that will improve coordination between training and education organizations within the Marine Corps with the goal of creating a more efficient training system.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Improving the Marine Team: Educators and Trainers Working Together

US Navy – Naval news from around the fleet.

• Sea Power: White House Deletes Most í05 Funds For Coast Guard Patrol Aircraft

US Marines – The latest in Fallujah.

• Washington Post: Warplanes Pound Sections of Fallujah
• PBS News Hour: Fallujah Fight

US Navy – An interview with Rear Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald, director of air warfare for the chief of naval operations.

• Sea Power: Fitzgerald: Re-capitalization Poses Challenge for Naval Air

Background – Iraq – An insightful look at the genesis and course of the uprising in Iraq.

• The New Yorker: The Uprising

Royal Navy – Some of the submarine HMS Trafalgar’s crew lose confidence in her.

• Daily Telegraph: Submarine crew put ashore after trial

US Marines – With the Marines in Fallujah.

• CNN: Reporter: Marines in Fallujah appear ‘geared up’

US Navy – A recent symposium spanning 25 sometimes turbulent years of integrating women into the fleet.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: Women at Sea

US Navy – Satellite communications capability ó critical to network centric operations ó has become the dominant feature of the U.S. Navyís involvement in space, and despite the anticipated delay of a key program, the service is committed to its missions in this arena.

• Sea Power: Despite Delay, Navy Is Committed To Satellite Communication Program

Background – Iraq – William Lind on why we always seem to make the wrong decision in Iraq.

• Defense in the National Interest: Why We Get It Wrong