Wired – Mystery Chinese Hospital Ship: What’s It For?
Late last month, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) accepted its first purpose-built floating hospital, the 10,000-ton “Ship 866.” While seemingly innocuous on the surface, ships like this are windows into an evolving military strategy for an emerging world power.
World Politics Review – New Chinese Naval Ships a Window into Evolving Strategy
Time – The Navy’s Floating Fiasco
A look at the sorry state of the USS San Antonio
Press Trust of India – Gorshkov’s Delivery to Indian Navy Delayed Until 2012
Russia today said the delivery of Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy would be delayed till 2012 as the vessel could be refitted only sometime in 2010.
Foreign Affairs – The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis
Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies.
AFP – Sailor charged with submarine deaths
A sailor has been charged for setting off the fire extinguishing system on the Russian nuclear submarine Nerpa, causing 20 people to be gassed to death
Reuters – Russia’s ageing navy still packs a deadly punch
Aboard the missile cruiser Moskva…
Los Angeles Times – Ruling unlikely to quell sonar storm
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday that the nation’s security outweighs the need to protect marine mammals from high-powered sonar during Navy training exercises, environmentalists said the fight was far from over.
New York Times – Supreme Court Rules for Navy in Sonar Case
Daily Telegraph – US Navy seeks to zap pirates
Naval commanders in the Gulf have requested ray gun technology to disable pirates without triggering gunfights that could endanger hostages.
Wired – Supreme Court: National Security Trumps Whales, Environmental Law
It’s a loud, sad day off the coast of California: the US Supreme Court today ruled in favor of the Navy and against environmentalists who argued that military sonar frequencies kill whales.
BBC – Navy shoots dead pirate suspects
The Royal Navy has repelled a pirate attack on a Danish cargo ship off the coast of Yemen, shooting dead two men believed to be Somali pirates.
Daily Telegraph – Submarine in worst nuclear leak since 80s
The most serious leak of radioactive liquid for 23 years at a Royal Navy base is under investigation after gallons of contaminated water spilled into a river from a nuclear submarine.
Associated Press – Russian sub survivors: Freon killed as crew slept
Dozens of crewmen were fast asleep on a nuclear submarine when freezing Freon gas poured over them from a firefighting system, survivors said Tuesday in the first eyewitness accounts of the Russian submarine accident that killed 20 people.
Washington Post – Russians To Probe Submarine Accident
Prosecutors opened a negligence probe Sunday into an accident aboard a new, nuclear-powered Russian submarine that killed 20 people, saying the victims appeared to have suffocated after a fire-safety system flooded two sections of the vessel with a gas that displaces oxygen.
Vanity Fair – Wall Street Lays Another Egg
Not so long ago, the dollar stood for a sum of gold, and bankers knew the people they lent to. Historian Niall Ferguson charts the emergence of an abstract, even absurd world—call it Planet Finance—where mathematical models ignored both history and human nature, and value had no meaning.
BBC – Twenty die on Russian submarine
At least 20 people have died in an incident involving the failure of a fire extinguishing system on a Russian nuclear submarine
Vanity Fair – Empire Falls
Historian Niall Ferguson writes that they called it “the American Century,” but the past hundred years actually saw a shift away from Western dominance. Through the long lens of Edward Gibbon’s history, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Rome 331 and America and Europe 2006 appear to have more than a few problems in common.
Mass High Tech – Naval Undersea Warfare Center replicated in Second Life
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center has created a virtual model of itself in Second Life — an online campus that is intended to be a 128-acre virtual R&D facility in a virtual Newport, R.I.
Defense Technology International – Moscow Eyes Strategic Port of Benghazi as Second Med Naval Station
Colonel Mummar el-Qaddafi, Libya’s longtime controversial leader, visited Moscow over the weekend and apparently offered the Port of Benghazi to Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev during their talks in the Kremlin last Saturday.
Defense Technology International – Lockheed Martin Pushes Export LCS
Lockheed Martin is contemplating big changes to its Littoral Combat Ship design to appeal to export customers, as the first LCS – USS Freedom – gets ready for its commissioning in Milwaukee on November 8.
New York Times Magazine – Stuart Levey’s War
How an unassuming Treasury under secretary is implementing innovative sanctions on Iran that could finally give Washington what it hasn’t had in Tehran in three decades: influence.
Defense News – Rand Study Suggests U.S. Loses War With China
A new RAND study suggests U.S. air power in the Pacific would be inadequate to thwart a Chinese attack on Taiwan in 2020. The study, entitled “Air Combat Past, Present and Future,” by John Stillion and Scott Perdue, says China’s anti-access arms and strategy could deny the U.S. the “ability to operate efficiently from nearby bases or seas.”
National Journal – What Can 44 Do In Iraq And Afghanistan?
The Former CENTCOM Commander Anthony Zinni on Iraq, Afghanistan and the next Administration’s options.
Defense Technology International – Captain Nemo, Your Ride Is Here
Stealth aircraft have been compared to submarines, and there are similarities between the two. Both depend on a smooth outside mould line for survival and carry their weapons internally, restricted by the ability to cut holes in the skin…
Daily Telegraph – Navy frigates defend world oil prices in the Gulf
In a small corner of the Gulf, British-led forces have been protecting the oil installations key to controlling world oil prices.
Virginian Pilot – Riverine squadron prepares for new duty in Iraq
The sailors in Riverine Squadron 1 are ready veterans – nine in 10 deployed with the unit to Iraq less than two years ago. But their return to Anbar province and patrolling the Euphrates River in a few weeks may bring less combat.
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