Operations Other Than War – Canadian Team Brings Experience to the Kearsarge

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Defense Technology International – Canadian Army Captain Daniel Rouest heads up the 15-member Canadian contingent currently aboard the USS Kearsargeóhis team being the first of three teams of Canadian doctors, trauma nurses, and dentists that will spend 6 weeks each aboard the ship, bringing the total number of Canadians to have participated in Continuing Promise to about 42 by time the float ends in December.
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Operations Other Than War – Operation Continuing Promise Sets Sail

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Defense Technology International – While stretched thin fighting two hot wars, deploying troops on peacekeeping and training missions from southeast Asia to Bosnia, launching a new Africa combatant command, and keeping a battle-ready deployment on the North/South Korean border; the American military still makes it a priority to invest time, resources and personnel to conduct smaller humanitarian missions among poverty-stricken populations in need of medical care.
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Royal Navy – Navy forced to curb role as Gordon Brown imposes cuts

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The Times – The government is planning further big cuts to the Royal Navy after deciding that terrorism is the only serious threat to Britain. Annual accounts from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) show that it is to cut funding for new ships and equipment by more than 20%, from about £1.8 billion a year to a maximum of £1.4 billion.
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Information Warfare – Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.

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New York Times – The era of the American Internet is ending.

Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the networkís first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.

Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence ó and conceivably military ó consequences.
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US Coast Guard – Coast Guard's Plans on Ice

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Defense Technology International – One of the Coast Guardís duties is to patrol the freezing cold waters off the northernmost coast of our United States. And they canít do it in shoddy boats. Two of the three USCG polar icebreakers ñ the Polar Star and Polar Sea ñ have exceeded their intended 30-year service lives. And on the serviceís current schedule, the first replacement ship might not enter service for another decade.
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US Navy – Navy: Aging P-3s safe despite mishaps

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Navy Times – The Navyís traditionally safe P-3 Orion patrol aircraft community has suffered six in-flight mishaps this fiscal year ó including its first Class A mishap in at least 10 years. But despite a steady uptick in mishaps, and the December grounding of 39 P-3s because of fears that wing sections could break off in flight, Navy and civilian officials insist the Orion is still safe to fly.
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