Italian Navy – Italy will sent a naval task force, including the aircraft carrier Guiseppe Garibaldi, to the Arabian Sea.
US Navy – The US Navy is running out of precision guided munitions, and there is a request to send a fourth aircraft carrier to the theater of operations.
US Coast Guard – Why the Deepwater program is more important than ever.
Royal Marines – 40 Commando is currently on R+R. It will take them some time to get their kit sorted and made ready for operations in Afghanistan.
US Coast Guard – The US Coast Guard will be acquiring the services of 5 of the US Navy’s coastal patrol boats, to use for off shore patroling.
US Navy – Former Secretary of the Navy James Webb’s opinion on how the US should proceed.
Background – Strategy – The current strategic view, from the United Kingdom – are we currently headed for a large land campaign?
Russian Navy – The Russians now feel a torpedo explosion inside the Kursk was the most likely cause of her loss.
Russian Navy – More about the Granit missiles being removed from the Kursk.
US Navy – R+R aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Russian Navy – The Varyag broke loose from the vessels towing it and was adrift but now has been taken back in tow.
US Navy – The USS Enterprise is steaming towards its home port.
US Navy – The US Navy will base the new aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan in San Diego.
US Navy – An analysis of the US targeting strategy.
Background – Nuclear Weapons – How secure are Pakistan’s nuclear weapons?
Chinese Navy – The former Soviety Navy carrier Varyag has transitted the Bosporus Strait on its way to China.
US Navy – US Marine Harriers from the USS Peleliu took part in air strikes against Afghanistan for the first time.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Peleliu, the Marine troops wait for the call to action.
Royal Navy – The Royal Navy is investigating ways to defend its ships from attacks from small fast craft
Background – Nuclear Weapons / Radiological Weapons – The threat of an attack against the US from terrorists armed with nuclear or radiological weapons is higher than most assume.
US Navy – The DD-21 program has been effectively canceled. A new, modular design adaptable to several missions, will be solicited from the design teams.
US Navy – Air to air refueling is a key component of every US Navy strike over Afghanistan, and S-3 Vikings are performing yeoman work in that regard.
US Navy – With the ordinance specialists on the USS Thedore Roosevelt.
Greek Navy – An interview with the Commander in Chief of the Greek Navy.
US Navy – Somewhere over Aghanistan, with pilots from the USS Carl Vinson.
US Marine Corps – The MV-22 Osprey will be grounded until next spring, and then will require 2 years of flight test to certify it is truely ready for production.
US Navy – A possible breakthrough in submarine communications.
Background – Biological Weapons – An absolutely chilling essay on what biological weapons could potentially do.
US Navy – With the aviation mechanics aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Royal Marines – 40 Commando continues to prepare for action, but how will they be used?
US Coast Guard – A new icebreaker will be built for use on the Great Lakes, to replace the USCGC Mackinaw which dates from WWII.
Background – Biological Weapons – Smallpox – An excellent history of smallpox as a disease, and how it can be turned into a lethal weapon.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Carl Vinson with the bunker busters.
US Navy – Why the use of “kinetics” is not the way to win in Afghanistan.
Royal Australian Navy – Refugees continue to try to land in Australia.
Background – Afghanistan – An excellent history, from 1985, by the military historian John Keegan that covers the history of Afghanistan including the British and Russian invasions in great depth and describes which tactics work and don’t work in Afghanistan.
US Navy – The true effect the air raids are having on Afghan morale, as seen by the correspondent John Simpson who is an observer on the ground. Simpson claims that the US technological precision does not awe the Afghans, but instead makes them regard the US as being effete. Read this, then read the next essay from 12 years ago to see if we have learned the lessons from the last war in Afghanistan???
Background – The Soviet Defeat – An interesting essay from 1989 written by Robert Kaplan that says the reason the Afghans ultimately defeated the Russians was the Afghan’s willingness to die.
US Navy – The USS Enterprise is on her way home.
Canadian Navy – The second Upholder-class attack submarine, HMCS Windsor, has arrived in Canada.
Given the current interest in biological weapons, in the next few days I will be bringing to your attention a few excellent background articles on biological warfare from the New Yorker magazine.
Background – Anthrax – A historical case report of one of the last anthrax cases in the United States, from the early 1960’s, told in story form. A good review of what anthrax does to humans.
Royal Marines – 200 Royal Marines from 40 Commando will stay in the Persian Gulf and assist in the campaign. They will be based on HMS Fearless and will have their helicopters based on HMS Illustrious.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan may send naval ships to the Indian Ocean, but not to the Persian Gulf.
US Navy – Does the US Navy still need it’s Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) communications network for communicating with ballistic missile submarines?
US Navy – Night air operations aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
US Navy and Marines Corps and Royal Navy – Lockheed-Martin wins the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter which will be the next generation fighter for the US and the British militaries.
Russian Navy – A look inside the Kursk.
Russian Navy – Russia will officially close its naval base in Vietnam at Cam Ranh Bay.
US Navy – The life of a landing signals officer aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
US Navy – Part of the Enterprise battlegroup has returned to port, but the USS Enterprise remains at sea.
US Marines – The Marines of the USS Peleliu amphibious ready group are ready to go.
Russian Navy – The nuclear attack submarine Gepard will soon be commissioned.
Background – Strategy – How the strategy is evolving.
Russian Navy – Work begins on removing the Granit missiles from the Kursk.
US Navy – With the pilots aboard the USS Carl Vinson.
Royal Marines – It seems likely Royal Marine Commandos will be committed to the battle.
Background – Strategy – The long view of the war, from Britain’s top military officer.
Background – John Keegan on why al-Qa’eda must be extinguished.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The USS Enterprise may be heading home soon.
US Navy – Hand held computers are revolutionizing naval life.
Royal Marines – The Royal Marines of 3 Commando Brigade are ready for cold weather warfare.
Danish Navy – The Danish Navy will send a ship to join NATO’s nine-ship Standing Naval Force Mediterranean, to free up other NATO members ships for operations in the Persian Gulf.
Background – Collateral Damage – Has the Pentagon become too concerned with causing civilian casualties?
Canadian Navy – HMCS Halifax has cleared the Suez Canal on her way to the Gulf.
US Navy – Underway replenishment aboard the USS Carl Vinson.
US Marines – More on the US Marines Mountain Warfare Training Center.
Background – National Security Agency (NSA) – An essay on what went wrong at the NSA that allowed the US to be blindsided on September 11 – a desire to live in the cryptological past rather than trying to embrace the future.
Royal Australian Navy – HMAS Kanimbla, an amphibious ship, has departed for service in the Persian Gulf. The frigate HMAS Anzac remains in the Gulf.
Romanian Navy – More on the sale of Type 22 frigates from the Royal Navy to Romania.
Background – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Royal Marines – The 24 man strong Royal Marine Brigade Patrol Troop specializes in winter recce work.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Carl Vinson with one of the few female F-14 Tomcat pilots.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Background – Middle East – Is the US winning the battle but loosing the war? The view from inside the Beltway.
Background – CIA – What is wrong with the CIA and why it missed predicting the events of September 11.
Royal Australian Navy – The Australian Navy has intercepted more refugees seeking asylum in Australia.
US Marines – The US Marines will form an antiterrorist unit.
Canadian Navy – The state of the Canadian Navy today.
US Navy – Aboard the USS John F. Kennedy, which is not in the Persian Gulf.
US Navy – US special forces, staging from the USS Kitty Hawk, have raided Taliban targets on the ground.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the latest aircraft carrier to arrive in theater.
Royal Marine – The Royal Marines will be offered to the US for use in ground operations.
Background – Taliban troops – The caliber of the troops US forces will face on the ground, by analyst James F. Dunnigan.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Enterprise’s air group.
US Navy – Prototype systems that help shorten sensor to shooter time lags may be deployed to help US forces.
Ground War – It was confirmed today that US special forces are on the ground in southern as well as northern Afghanistan.
Background – Saudia Arabia – This essay paints a disturbing picture of our “allies” the Saudis – a corrupt regime that has bankrolled the fundamentalists who are trying to overthrow it.
US Air Force – The USAF has for the first time armed its RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with Hellfire antitank missiles. This is truely a revolution in military affairs, and is actually covered in more detail at the end of the above New Yorker article.
US Navy – The USS Theodore Roosevelt is now participating in the air war. Also, the USS Kitty Hawk has loaded special forces troops and helicopters and is now in theater.
Canadian Navy – The Canadian Navy task force has departed for the Persian Gulf.
Royal Australian Navy – Australia’s contribution will be larger than expected and will include a SAS Squadron, 2 P-3 Orions, 2 frigates and an amphibious command ship.
US Coast Guard – The US Coast Guard is nearing the breaking point in terms of platforms and personnel as it provides increased levels of homeland defense; the US Navy may help it out.
Royal Navy – Aboard HMS Illustrious with the media.
US Navy – The life of the air boss aboard USS Carl Vinson.
US Marines – More on exercise Bright Star in Egypt.
Phillipine Navy – The Phillipine Navy continues to battle Islamic terrorists.
Royal Marines – 3 Commando Brigade, currently exercising in Oman, may be deployed to Afghanistan. They are the mountain and winter warfare experts of the British military.
US Marines – Meanwhile the US Marines maintain a Mountain Warfare Training Center in California to distribute mountain and winter warfare expertise throughout the Corps.
US Navy – The former residents of Diego Garcia who were evicted from the island 30 years ago fear this conflict will delay their court-ordered permanent return to their home islands.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Carl Vinson in the Gulf.
Background – Airpower Analysis To Date – A critical look at the ineffective nature of the air campaign to date.
US Navy – Aboard USS Enterprise.
US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk’s role may be to serve as a base for US Army Apache attack helicopters.
Background – Endgame Afghanistan – Robert Kaplan on how the post Taliban era should happen in Afghanistan.
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