Defense Technology International – An ex-U.S. Navy destroyer was sunk for real (by an Australian sub) in the first-ever live test of the latest Mk 48 Mod 7 CBASS heavyweight torpedo variant.
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Piracy – The most dangerous seas in the world
Economist – Pirates are terrorising the high seas off Africaís east coast
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US Navy – Torpedoed
Defense Technology International – The US Navy has decided not to build more than two DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class land-attack destroyers. Official word comes Thursday???
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Israeli Navy – Israel to Get up to Four LCS Ships
Defense Technology International – The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified the nation’s Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Israel of Lockheed Martin-designed Littoral Combat Ships as well as associated equipment and services.
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US Navy – Cost and design bugs could sink new destroyer program
Virginian Pilot – The DDG 1000 was to be a class of two dozen destroyers with a radar-evading profile and a crew half the size of those on similar vessels. But purchases are on hold because of the cost ñ up to $5 billion each ñ and reliance on unproven technologies.
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Iraq – Surge Protector
New York Times – Admiral Fallon shows the way forward in Iraq.
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Chinese Navy – Striking the US where it hurts (Part 1)
Asia Times – A very interesting look (from 2006) at possible scenarios for future conflicts between China and the US???and how China would wage asymmetric warfare against the US.
Asia Times – The assassin’s mace (Part 2).
Asia Times – If it comes to a shooting war ??? .
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US Navy – P-8 Program Already Looking Into Crystal Ball
Defense News – Even before the first test version of the U.S. Navy’s P-8 Poseidon is completely built, program managers have their eye on future versions of the submarine-hunting, intelligence-gathering plane.
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Geopolitics / China – China's war on nature
Financial Times – Niall Ferguson looks at the current state of China today and the challenges it faces.
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Portugese Navy – Portugal's "Black Hole" in the Water
Defense Technology International – The first of two first of two Class 209PN air-independent propulsion/diesel-electric submarines for the Portuguese navy was launched at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Germany’s lead submarine building yard in Kiel on July 15.
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Mexican Navy – Mexican navy finds suspected drugs in makeshift submarine
AFP – The Mexican navy has intercepted a home-made submarine with a suspected drug shipment in Pacific waters, 15 kilometers (10 miles) off the coast of Oaxaca state.
Los Angeles Times – Submarine, homemade and cocaine-laden, is seized off Mexico.
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Royal Navy – Navy called in after coastguards go on strike
Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy will this weekend be forced to provide emergency cover for Britain’s coastline because of a two-day strike by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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US Navy – 13,000 Japanese protest US nuclear carrier
Associated Press – Thousands of Japanese rallied against the permanent basing of a nuclear-powered U.S. warship near Tokyo, saying a recent onboard fire made it unsafe.
About 13,000 protesters gathered at a park near the port of Yokosuka, just south of the capital, where the USS George Washington aircraft carrier will be based.
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US Navy – Think small
Armed Forces Journal – Adding small combatant ships would beef up the Navyís capabilities.
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US Navy – Pacific Choke Point
Air Force – The US military now feels a need to keep a wary eye on the Strait of Malacca and its neighborhood.
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US Navy – Nassau strike group provided show of force amid Mideast tensions
Virginian Pilot – During the last five months in the Middle East, tensions grew in Syria, unrest delayed Lebanonís president election more than 15 times, and Iraq struggled to keep oil pumping to its main offshore terminals. The USS Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group has had front row seats for all of the action.
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Transformation – What Rumsfeld Got Right
The Atlantic – Robert Kaplan on how Donald Rumsfeld remade the U.S. military for a more uncertain world.
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Argentinian Navy – Argentina's military threat raises fears over Falklands
Daily Telegraph – Argentina raised the prospect of posting military forces in the Antarctic region yesterday, with the announcement of plans to use troops to defend its interests.
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US Navy – Carrier with Oceana-based squadron shifted to Afghanistan
Associated Press – The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was moved out of the Persian Gulf and to the Gulf of Oman, shortening the time that the carrier’s strike planes must fly to support combat in Afghanistan.The decision reflects both the worsened state of the fight in Afghanistan but improvements in Iraq as well.
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Iran – Preparing the Battlefield
New Yorker – Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sourcesÖ
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Iran – Push for New Direction Leads to Sudden Dead End for a 40-Year Naval Career
New York Times – Admiral Fallon’s first interview since his early retirement.
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French Navy – Roaming with the Roosevelt
Defense Technology International – France is deploying the nuclear attack submarine SNA LíAmethyste on a two month deployment to the U.S. east coast and Caribbean. It will operate there as part of the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group.
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Operations Other Than War – Navy ñ and family ñ to the rescue
San Diego Union Tribune – The U.S.S. Ronald Reagan carrier strike group participated in a humanitarian operation after Typhoon Fengshen hit the Philippines.
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Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Historic Visit by Japanese Destroyer to China
Defense Technology International – In a historic event considering the bitter conflict in the the previous century between the two nations, the first Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force warship to visit China since World War 2 arrived in the port of Zhangjiang on June 24, 2008.
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Geopolitics – The Future of American Power: How America Can Survive the Rise of the Rest
Foreign Affairs – Fareed Zakaria writes that despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain’s decline was driven by bad economics. The United States, in contrast, has the strength and dynamism to continue shaping the world — but only if it can overcome its political dysfunction and reorient U.S. policy for a world defined by the rise of other powers.
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