Navy Times – How the US Navy is helping with the Pakistan earthquake relief efforts.
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Parameters – The purpose of this article is to introduce and analyze the Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development to the military community.

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Virginian Pilot – The Navy has ordered the return of its last three large amphibious ships from the Gulf Coast, where they were part of a 19-ship task force that spent the past month in hurricane relief operations.
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Washington Post – A look at how the USS Iwo Jima helped victims of Hurrican Rita.
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Associated Press – The USS Iwo Jima is assisting in post-Hurricane Rita relief efforts.
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Wall Street Journal – Historian Michael Oren gives an insightful, inside view of Israel’s successful operation other than war that occured last week – the removal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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Washington Post – As the United States was struggling with the postwar reconstruction of Iraq, the historian Niall Ferguson published a book arguing that America needed the modern equivalent of the old British Colonial Office to build political stability in far-flung places. The U.S. military was good at breaking things, he suggested in “Colossus,” but not so good at putting them back together. A look at the Defense Science Board’s study titled “Transition to and from Hostilities,” a blueprint for changes across the government that would give the United States the nation-building capability it has too often lacked in Iraq.

The full report is here: Transition to and from Hostilities (PDF format)
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New Yorker – The marines of Expeditionary Strike Group Five take on the tsunami. Outstanding overview of their humanitarian operations in Indonesia.
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