Associated Press – The U.S. Navy said it had begun a series of exercises in the Gulf and wider Gulf waters on Friday involving a U.S aircraft carrier and two expeditionary assault ships.
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US Navy – Mahan or Corbett?
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind asks what is the role of the navy in Fourth Generation Warfare.
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Geopolitics / Environmentalism – Neptune's Navy
New Yorker – A very interesting look at one eco-warrior’s wild crusade to save the oceans.
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US Navy – US seeks to remove pirates from ships
Associated Press – The U.S. Navy on Friday kept its eye on a Japanese tanker taken over by pirates off Somalia’s coast.
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Norwegian Navy – Attention U.S. Navy: Littoral Combat Craft For Sale
Defense Technology International – The Norwegian Chief of Defense is to present his proposal for the country’s next multi-year defense plan on Monday Nov. 5 — and the Skjold-class program to acquire six super-fast (60-kt.) littoral combat craft is expected to be one of the main casualties.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – 12 Myths of 21st-Century War
American Legion – Raph Peters writes that “Unaware of the cost of freedom and served by leaders without military expertise, Americans have started to believe whatever’s comfortable.”
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Royal Navy – Navy to patrol Gulf in the spring
Daily Telegraph – HMS Illustrious will be deployed in the Gulf next spring.
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Nigerian Navy – Nigeria navy in deadly oil clash
BBC – At least two people have been killed in a clash between the Nigerian navy and suspected militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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US Navy – Crew wins deadly pirate battle off Somalia
CNN – The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight.
BBC – Pirates ‘overpowered’ off Somalia.
Virginian Pilot – Norfolk-based ships respond to pirate attacks on vessels.
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US Navy – U.S. destroyer pursuing hijacked ship in Somali waters
CNN – A U.S. destroyer has entered Somali territorial waters in pursuit of a Japanese-owned ship loaded with benzene that was hijacked by pirates over the weekend, military officials said Monday.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – After smart weapons, smart soldiers
Economist – Irregular warfare may keep Western armies busy for decades. They will have to adapt if they are to overcome the odds that history suggests they are up against.
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Transformation – Brains, not bullets
Economist – Western armies are good at destroying things. Can they be made better at building them?
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy disaster relief exercise of cruise in S. Atlantic
MercoPress – Battling her way through 800 miles of ferocious seas between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the Royal Navy Atlantic South patrol and an auxiliary vessel carried out this month a disaster relief exercise based around a typical South Atlantic cruise vessel visiting South Georgia and which supposedly had ran aground in deteriorating weather.
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US Navy – Seven New Carriers (Maybe)
Air Force – The Navy plans to build many more flattops, and they wonít be “Gary Hart carriers.”
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Fourth Generation Warfare – David Kilcullen
Charlie Rose – An hour interview with Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen.
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US Navy – Navy relieves officer of command of nuclear submarine
Associated Press – Cmdr. Michael B. Portland of the submarine USS Hampton was relieved of duty after a U.S. Navy investigation found the ship failed to do daily safety checks on its nuclear reactor for a month and falsified records to cover up the omission.
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US Marines – Out of the Frying PanÖ
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind analyses the Marines’ proposal to focus their operations in Afghanistan.
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US Navy – New Maritime Strategy to Focus on 'Soft Power'
Associated Press – The Navyís mainstay Arleigh Burke destroyers are subject to structural damage under higher-than-anticipated loads in rough seas, necessitating nearly $60 million in upgrades for the entire class of ships.
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Iraq – Colonel H.R. McMaster
Mother Jones – Colonel H.R. McMaster on the current state of affairs in Iraq.
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Iraq – Lt. Colonel John Nagl
Mother Jones – An interview with Lt. Col. John Nagl on Iraq.
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US Coast Guard – New task for U.S. Coast Guard in Arctic's warming seas
New York Times – For most of human history, the Arctic Ocean has been an ice-locked frontier. But now, in one of the most concrete signs of the effect of a warming climate on government operations, the U.S. Coast Guard is planning its first operating base there as a way of dealing with the cruise ships and the tankers that are already beginning to ply Arctic waters.
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Iraq – General Anthony Zinni
Mother Jones – An interview with General Zinni on the current state of affairs in Iraq.
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Geopolitics / United States – The Next Five States
Esquire – Thomas P.M. Barnett asks: In the lives of men and nations, either you are growing or you’re dying. In our time, the Soviet Union imploded, China is adding back lost colonies, and Europe is now the European Union. So why did the United States stop growing? And what will our next five states be?
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French Navy – Aboard the Tonnerre, Again
Defense Technology International – Another look at life aboard Tonnerre, France’s new b‚timents de protection et de commandement.
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French Navy – Tonnerre HLD Proves Large Naval HQ Can Be Embarked
Defense Technology International – NATO’s Noble Midas major naval exercise in the Adriatic sea ended on 16th October and, according to Commodore Alain Hinden of the French navy who commanded the 9,400 people and 50 ships (of which just one, the submarine USS Annapolis, was from the US Navy) which took part, it all ìwent remarkably well,î and was proof that a large naval HQ can function from aboard a ship.
The exercise was commanded from aboard the French Navy’s Tonnerre landing helicopter dock — the new-born sister ship of the Mistral having been delivered to the navy on 1st August ñ the first time such a large HQ (240 computer terminals) has been assembled aboard a ship.
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