New York Times – Niall Ferguson review’s Philip Bobbitt’s new book, entitled “The Wars for the Twenty-First Century.”
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French Navy – Where French Naval Aviation Stands Today
Defense Technology International – The state of France’s naval air fleet.
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Royal Navy – Pirates can claim UK asylum
The Times – The Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.
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Geopolitics / India – Oh! Kolkata!
The Atlantic – Robert Kaplan writes that Calcutta has been renamed. Now, with investment on the rise, tech companies moving in, and a growing middle class, can it be reborn?
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French Navy – French commandos swoop after pirates free hostages
Reuters – French commandos seized six pirates in Somalia on Friday during a daring helicopter raid launched shortly after the bandits had released the 30-strong crew of a luxury yacht hijacked last week.
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French Navy – Desperately Seeking Better Quality Recruits: French Navy
Defense Technology International – The French navy has to recruit 4,000 men and women annually??? and it’s becoming tough.
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US Navy – Undersea warfare: The hidden threat
Armed Forces Journal – The author points downward to a potential threat still overlooked: an attack on seabed infrastructure critical to the economy and to U.S. security.
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Royal New Zealand Navy – New Zealand Shows Off its New Multi-Role Vessel
Defense Technology International – HMNZS Canterbury (L 421), the Royal New Zealand Navy’s brand-new multi-role vessel (MRV) amphibious transport ship, is on its first major multinational exercise.
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Nuclear Warfare – A Smuggler's Story
The Atlantic – Meet Oleg Khintsagov, a small-time hustler in Russia who can get you dried fish, furs, Turkish chandeliers Ö and weapons-grade uranium. Heís not the only one.
The Atlantic – Uranium on the Loose – Lawrence Scott Sheets discusses the lawlessness of the former Soviet republics and the nuclear threat no one talks about..
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French Navy – France is tracking hijacked yacht
Angola Press – The French coastal frigate Le Commandant Bouan had been sent to monitor the luxury yacht seized, with its crew, on Friday by Somali pirates.
Associated Press – Pirates Dock French Boat in Somali Port.
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US Navy – Nuclear carrier GW on voyage of diplomacy to Japan
Virginian Pilot – When the George Washington ties up in Yokosuka, Japan, in August, it will become the first nuclear-powered carrier based in the only nation ever to be attacked by nuclear weapons.
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Geopolitics / Nationalism – Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism
Foreign Affairs – Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. But in fact, it corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, it is galvanized by modernization, and in one form or another, it will drive global politics for generations to come. Once ethnic nationalism has captured the imagination of groups in a multiethnic society, ethnic disaggregation or partition is often the least bad answer.
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US Navy – GW leaves for new base in Japan on Monday
Virginian Pilot – The aircraft carrier George Washington, with a crew of about 3,200, is slated to depart Monday en route to its new home base in Yokosuka, Japan, where it will replace the Kitty Hawk as the United Statesí only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier.
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US Navy – Carried Away
Armed Forces Journal – A challenge to the US Navy to align its old-style, carrier-heavy procurement strategy with the new maritime strategy.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – A Battalion's Worth of Good Ideas
New York Times – John Nagl on the crucial importance of the small group of American military advisers who live and fight alongside foreign forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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US Navy – Future of Mayport Naval Station remains uncertain
Virginian Pilot – The Navy could spend nearly $500 million to ready Mayport Naval Station in Florida for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – perhaps from Norfolk – by 2014???Or it could choose to make no changes in the base’s operations.
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US Navy – DOJ Asks High Court Review on Navy Sonar
Associated Press – The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision limiting the Navy’s use of sonar off the Southern California coast because of potential harm to dolphins and whales.
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Royal Navy – Guns for hire? No, but there are warships for rent
The Guardian – The MoD is increasingly outsourcing to the private sector. It’s leasing aircraft and ships today; will it be tanks and armies tomorrow?
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Royal Navy – MoD hands over Royal Navy project to BAE to bypass £700m tax
The Times – The Ministry of Defence will reluctantly hand control of a project to build two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy to BAE Systems in an attempt to avoid a £700 million tax bill.
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Geopolitics / Arctic – Arctic Meltdown: The Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming
Foreign Affairs – Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year. But there are currently no clear rules governing this economically and strategically vital region. Unless Washington leads the way toward a multilateral diplomatic solution, the Arctic could descend into armed conflict.
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Iraq – Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate
New York Times – Michael Gordon writes that the decision by L. Paul Bremer III to dissolve Iraqís Army was a reversal from a plan the White House had approved.
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Geopolitics / NATO – Equal alliance, unequal roles
New York Times – Robert Kaplan on the future of NATO.
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Ground Warfare – Scions of the Surge
Newsweek – Five years on, the war is transforming the American officer corps.
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Editorial Note – Announcing the War Studies Primer – an introductory course on the study of war
War Studies Primer is an introductory course on the study of war: 28 lectures and over 1,250 slides.
The purpose of the War Studies Primer is to provide a primer, or introduction, to the study of war.
In its current form, the War Studies Primer is presented as a lecture curriculum for a university course that is an introduction to war studies. It is a non-credit, self-study course.
War Studies Primer was begun in 2004, is a work in progress, and will be updated on a yearly basis.
War Studies Primer is made available for your use and reuse and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Please contact me with your comments and feedback about the War Studies Primer.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Saturday March 29th
NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Saturday March 29th. I apologize for posting this so late, I had intended to post it on March 14th???I will see you again on March 29th!
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