US Navy – More on the role the command ship USS Mount Whitney will play in the war on terror.
Background – Nuclear Terrorism – An excellent essay on new technologies being developed to build “nuclear walls” around cities in order to screen shipping containers and trucks for nuclear weapons.
Royal Navy – UK minesweepers pass through the Suez Canal on their way to the Gulf.
Royal Navy – HMS Endurance begins her annual 8 month deployment to the Antarctic.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan renews its naval committment to the war on terror for another 6 months.
Taiwanese Marines – Taiwan receives its first AAVP7-A1 amphibious assault vehicles, which it would use for raids on China’s coast in time of war.
US Navy – Retention in the US Navy continues to improve, facilitated by reenlistment bonuses.
US Navy – The US will start with CVNX-2 instead of CVNX-1.
US Navy – An overview of progress being made in aircraft carrier, surface warfare, expeditionary warfare, submarine, auxilliaries and aviation building programs.
Chinese Navy – China is looking to buy Slava-class cruisers and Akula-class nuclear attack submarines from Russia.
US Navy – The USS Constellation battlegroup deploys to the Gulf.
US Navy – The US will create a new military command in the Horn of Africa to pursue terrorists, it will probably be located aboard the command ship USS Mount Whitney.
US Navy – More Ro-Ro cargo ships leave the US for destinations unknown???
US Marine Corps – Tom Ricks interviews the Commandant of the US Marines.
Background – Iraq – David Isby on techniques Iraq might use to pursue asymetric warfare against the US.
Background – Nonlethal Weapons – The US Navy and Marine Corps are urged to develop more nonlethal weapons.
Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan again chases a Chinese spy ship away from its coast.
Royal Navy – The UK is taking steps to enhance security around the Straits of Gibraltar against terrorist attack.
US Navy – Sailors move in to the USS Ronald Reagan.
Military Sealift Command – The US is again looking to charter ships to carry ammunition to the Gulf.
Royal Air Force – The Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft upgrade continues to suffer setbacks.
Background – Iraq – John Simpson on how the war with Iraq may play out???
Background – Pakistan – Robert Kaplan reviews 2 new books on Pakistan and concludes that if Musharraf fails in liberalizing Pakistan, the result will be disaster.
Background – Wargames – The role of the US Naval War College in helping to shape US Navy strategy – past and present.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf.
US Navy – More on the next generation carrier.
US Navy – More on the court-ordered restrictions on the use of low frequency active sonar.
Background – Diego Garcia – The residents of Diego Garcia continue their quest to return home (this is a repost from Friday with the correct link)???and why Diego Garcia is so important to the US.
Background – Transformation – A panel discussion on the definition of transformation, and the barriers to implementing it in the US military.
Royal Australian Navy – Australia continues to assist in blockading Iraq.
Royal Navy – The Royal Navy is dangerously short of ships to deploy to the Gulf, if so required.
US Navy – More on the report that acuses the Navy of not having a clear plan for the future of its carrier fleet???
US Navy – The Second Fleet commander stresses that training determines outcomes of wars.
Singaporean Navy – Singapore is escorting merchant vessels through the Singapore Straits.
US Navy – A US judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning the US from operating its low frequency active sonar system.
Merchant Shipping – A new report released by a US non partisan commission shows just how vulnerable US ports are to terrorist attack.
Background – Diego Garcia – The residents of Diego Garcia continue their quest to return home.
Background – Urban Combat – US troops are training intensely for urban combat, which can be a very tricky business.
Canadian Navy – The chief of the Canadian Navy thinks his new submarines are a good deal.
Canadian Navy – Aboard HMCS Montreal in the Gulf of Oman, pursuing the war on terror.
Indian Navy – India will receive its first Talwar-class ship by the end of the year.
US Navy – At sea aboard the USS Kitty Hawk off of Iwo Jima.
US Navy – At sea aboard the USS Constellation.
US Navy – At sea aboard the USS Harry S Truman.
US Navy – Despite their importance, the US does not have a clear plan for the future of its carrier fleet.
US Navy – The US Navy, allied navies, and the Iranian Navy have nearly shut down the flow of illegal oil out of Iraq.
Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan wants to buy Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyers from the US???while they try to decide whether to purchase the Kidd-class destroyers.
US Marines – US Marines are operating in Djibouti.
US Marines – The USS Nassau amphibious ready group and the 24th MEU are about to begin desert training.
US Navy – A review of the US build-up in the Gulf.
Background – Infantry Weapons – James F. Dunnigan on the history of the rifle.
Royal Australian Navy – Australia is sending two more frigates to the Gulf.
Chilean Navy – The UK would like to sell HMS Sheffield to Chile.
Canadian Navy – What Canada must do to help its navy.
US Navy – USS Constellation is ready to deploy to the Gulf.
US Navy – C-40 logistic support aircraft (modified 737’s) are rolling off the production line for the Navy.
US Navy – More on the Cooperative Engagement Capabilty on Aegis-equipped ships.
Background – Iraq – William Arkin supplies a reading list on Desert Storm I, to prepare us for Desert Storm II.
Royal Navy – The Type-23 frigate HMS St. Albans is hit by a ferry that was blown into it while it was tied up in port. The St. Albans is severely damaged.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with the ship’s chaplain.
US Navy – Miscellaneous US Navy aviation news on the MH-60S Knighthawk and the Rapid Airborne Mine-Clearance System (RAMICS).
US Navy – Training aboard the USS Constellation.
Merchant Marine – Cunard and P&O cruise lines are taking antiterrorist precautions seriously.
Background – War on Terror – William Arkin on how the war on terror is moving into the shadows.
Background – Readiness – Just how underfunded and underprepared were US forces by the end of the Clinton administration?
US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk carrier battlegroup sets sail from Japan.
US Navy – The Navy’s four shipyards respond directly and rapidly to the Navy’s needs.
Background – War on Terror – More on Hezbollah and the threat it poses to the US.
History – What lessons can be learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam that can be applied to the current crisis with Iraq?
US Navy – The Military Sealift Command’s ships are standing by to carry equipment to the Gulf.
Canadian Navy – Canada’s new submarines will not be armed until 2004.
US Navy – The US will start swapping ship crews in Perth, Australia. This will allow ships to be forward deployed for longer periods of time.
French Navy – A French patrol boat is making a port call in New Zealand.
Background – History – James F. Dunnigan on how seemingly insignificant developments influenced land and naval warfare.
US Navy – The US has searched a vessel in the Mediterranean suspected of harboring al Qaeda operatives.
Royal Navy – HMS Nottingham is about to begin its voyage home to the UK.
Background – Unmanned Underwater Vehicles – More details on underwater gliders.
US Navy – Navy’s surface force is ready for the challenges of the 21st century.
US Navy – The US Navy is being urged to reach further with its new aircraft carrier designs.
US Navy – How the US intends to replace Vieques.
US Marines – The Marines begin their push for seabasing.
Indian Navy – India is undertaking a goodwill tour of the Gulf.
NAVINT – Antony Preson’s NAVINT, with naval news from France, Belgium, and the UK.
US Marines – Urban combat training with the Marines.
Merchant Marine – A review of the marine terrorism threat.
Merchant Marine – What Singapore is doing to protect against marine terrorism.
US Navy – A look at the problems surfacing during implementation of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet.
US Navy – USS Lake Erie forges the way to the future with sea-based missile defense.
US Navy – More on the upcoming deployment of the USS Constellation.
US Navy – A US intelligence officer loses his lawsuit against the Russian owners of a ship which he claims attacked his vision with a laser. The ship was said to be gathering intelligence on US ballistic missile submarines. Is the US failing to support its people when they are injured in the line of duty?
Chinese Navy – A detailed analysis of possible ways China could invade Taiwan.
Royal Navy – The UK will be sending 4 minesweepers to the Gulf.
Merchant Marine – A review of the threats terrorists pose to supertankers.
US Navy – A review of the progress being made by the US in sea-based missile defense.
Background – Joint Operations – Information technology should aid, rather than impede, joint operations.
Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan launches its last in a class of guided missile frigates, similar to the US Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates.
Merchant Marine – There is general agreement that the French tanker explosion off of Yemen was caused by a terrorist boat hitting it.
Royal Navy – The UK is thinking of partnering with the French in the design and construction of its new aircraft carriers.
US Navy – The US is testing a new command and control trainer which simulates the operations of a carrier battlegroup.
US Navy – The USS Constellation battlegroup is being deployed early to the Gulf.
US Navy – A detailed description of the Maritime Prepositioning Forces at Diego Garcia.
US Navy – The agile and adaptive Navy-Marine Corps team transforms itself to meet the future.
Background – Secretary of Defense Rumsfield – The attacks on Secretary Rumsfield begin again, with him being described as a better war secretary than defense secretary. An interesting survey by Thomas Ricks.
Background – War on Terror – Ralph Peters on how the terrorist bombing in Indonesia will backfire against the terrorists.
US Navy – Is the US considering establishing a naval base in the Sao Tome and Principe islands, in the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea off of West Africa?
US Navy – The US and UK are actively working on neutralizing Iraq’s air defense capabilities.
Background – Intelligence Satellites – The use of commercial imaging satellites is increasing rapidly in the US military.
US Coast Guard – How the Coast Guard responded to the events of 9-11.
Background – War on Terror – William Arkin on how the logic regarding the war on terror is becoming circular???
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan is celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the JMSDF.
US Navy – The CNO’s Seapower vision takes shape in the Surface Combatant Family of Ships.
Background – Iraq – More from James Fallows on what will be need to turn Iraq into a democracy – and why so many in the US military are against invading Iraq.
Background – Korea – A detailed look at Korean espionage activities, including naval operations, against Japan.
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