Daily Telegraph – The European Parliament has accidentally voted through a draft law that could bankrupt the Ordnance Survey and expose secret sea-mapping data that foreign powers could use to track Royal Navy ships.
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History – Once Upon a Time in The Arizona
Leatherneck – The Arizona in Vietnam: scrub brush, tunnels, caves, killers and heroes.
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US Navy – Navy sinks retired destroyers Comte de Grasse and Stump
Virginian Pilot – The Navy sank two of its retired Spruance-class destroyers in a day of surface and air warfare training about 275 miles off the North Carolina coast, sending the largest destroyers ever built to the dark ocean floor 12,000 feet below.
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US Marines – Blood Stripes
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind reviews David Daneloís new book, Blood Stripes, which offers a thoughtful and insightful look into the Iraq war through the eyes of enlisted Marines.
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US Marines – Marine Says Rules Were Followed
Washington Post – The Marines’ side of the story, of what happened at Haditha, told through their lawyers.
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Iraq – Good Execution Can Compensate for Bad Policy: How the Generals are losing Iraq
Center for Defense Information – An interesting analysis of the current situation in Iraq by Douglas Macgregor. (PDF format)
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Iraq – Why we lost in Iraq
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting analysis by Chet Richards on the situation in Iraq. (PDF format)
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Royal Navy – Naval base has 19 warships in mothballs and just 16 on active service
Daily Telegraph – For the first time since the 1982 Falklands conflict the number of warships at Portsmouth naval base on active service has dropped below the number decommissioned and awaiting disposal.
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Air Warfare – Toward A New Laser Era
Air Force – A look at the US Air Force’s current work towards airborne laser weapons.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Monday June 12
NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Monday June 12th – see you then!
Chinese Navy – China's Maturing Navy
US Naval War College Review – A new and much more capable Chinese navy, especially its submarine force, is being acquired and deployed. It is not yet mature, but its rapid and impressive modernization is making it a navy that is arguably the only one that the U.S. Navy must deter or be able to defeatóunless, under other circumstances, it becomes a high-seas partner.
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US Marines – War Among the Rocks
Leatherneck – Heroes step forward in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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US Navy – Iwo Jima shifts from Katrina to Iraq in new deployment
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group deploys.
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Military Space – Space and Counterspace
Air Force – Space superiority cannot be taken for granted, so the Air Force is making plans to defend it.
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Chinese Navy – The Perils of Threat Inflation
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the Defense Departmentís annual report to Congress, Military Power of the Peopleís Republic of China, 2006.
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US Marines – Conflicting Accounts Of Haditha Killings
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports that inconsistencies in Marine Corps version of the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians has given rise to one of the potentially most damaging events of Iraq war.
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Geopolitics – The Proliferation Security Initiative
US Naval War College Review – The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched in 2003, is an international effort to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states and terrorists. With sixteen core member states and some sixty cooperating nations, it enjoys today many advantages of law and organization in coastal waters, but it lacks useful authority to interdict WMD on the high seas. PSI itself, however, represents an opportunity to alter international law and fill that critical gap.
US Marines – After Haditha, New Look At Training
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports that the U.S. military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately scrutinize reports that should have caught their attention.
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US Marines – U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq
Washington Post – A look at the situation the Marines face in Anabar province.
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US Marines – Let's Be Honest About the Marines in Hadithah
Washington Post – William Arkin puts the situation in Hadithah in perspective.
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Operations Other Than War – U.S. military sends 100 medics to treat Indonesia quake victims
Jakarta Post – The U.S. Navy and Air Force plans to send 100 doctors, nurses and medical technicians to Indonesia to treat victims of the deadly earthquake that struck Central Java.
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Israeli Navy – Israel part of NATO naval exercise
Jerusalem Post – Israel bolstered its defense ties with NATO on Monday after announcing that the navy would participate, for the first time, in a summertime exercise with the Western military alliance.
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US Marines – Coverup of Iraq Incident By Marines Is Alleged
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports on the alleged massacre at Haditha.
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US Navy – Navy developing nanotech to improve ships
Associated Press – With an eye to developing faster ships, the U.S. Navy has teamed up with a New York company and the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop an electronics system that will sharply reduce the size and weight of a warship’s motors.
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Wargaming – Baghdad, USA
Wired – Roadside bombs. Hostile insurgents. 1,200 extras in Arab dress. Welcome to Louisiana and the Army camp known as the Box, where the violence is fake but the fear is for real.
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