New York Times – When Chuck Norris joined the National Guard, he wasn’t expecting to end up in one of the worst corners of the Sunni Triangle. Now he’s home in Pennsylvania, with his fellow guardsmen and memories he just can’t shake.
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Russian Navy – Russia launches research satellite from submarine
Xinhua – Russia launched a research satellite on board a Shtil rocket from a Northern Fleet submarine at the Barents Sea.
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Geopolitics / Latin America – Latin America's Left Turn
Foreign Affairs – With all the talk of Latin America’s turn to the left, few have noticed that there are really two lefts in the region. One has radical roots but is now open-minded and modern; the other is close-minded and stridently populist. Rather than fretting over the left’s rise in general, the rest of the world should focus on fostering the former rather than the latter — because it is exactly what Latin America needs.
US Marines – 'Worst war crime' committed by US in Iraq
New York Times – A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians, Congressional, military and Pentagon officials said Thursday.
The Times – The Marines and a ‘massacre’ in Iraq.
Daily Telegraph – ‘Worst war crime’ committed by US in Iraq.
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US Navy – Rome speeds up leaving of U.S. subs
Washington Times – Italy’s new center-left government will accelerate planned closure of a U.S. nuclear submarine base on the northern coast of the island of Sardinia amid fears nearby residents suffer higher-than-average cancer rates.
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Intelligence – Private Jihad
New Yorker – A look at the woman who became a freelance spy. An example of open-source intelligence in action???
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Royal Australian Navy – Australia rushes to troubled East Timor
Christian Science Monitor – East Timor’s call for help Wednesday opened a new mission for an already stretched Australian military.
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Malaysian Navy – Submarine Sonar Operators Play It By The Ear
Bernama – A look at the training required to take the Malaysian Navy’s new submarine, the Agosta-class Ouessant, to sea.
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US Navy – Carrier GW leaves its mark on a region
Virginian Pilot – The USS George Washington is ending her deployment to the Caribbean Sea.
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Malaysian Navy – First-Time Submariners, But Adapting Well
Bernama – Life aboard the Ouessant, the Agosta-class submarine used by Malaysia’s first batch of submariners for initial training.
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US Navy – The Aegis of America
Asahi Shimbun – A look at the US Navy’s role in Japan.
Ashai Simbun – Yokosuka lets U.S. Navy put its best ships forward.
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Afghanistan – We Were Abandoned
Macleans – An elite unit of Canadian snipers went from standouts to outcasts — victims, many say, of a witch hunt driven by jealousy and fear.
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Afghanistan – US sets up £215m deal for Afghan arms – from Russia
Daily Telegraph – American defence officials have secretly requested a “prodigious quantity” of ammunition from Russia to supply the Afghan army in case a Democrat president takes over in Washington and pulls out US troops.
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Afghanistan – Navy's role in Afghanistan grows
Virginian Pilot – With the war in Iraq straining U.S. Army and Marine units, missions in Afghanistan are increasingly being turned over to the Navy and Air Force.
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Miscellaneous – Full steam ahead: Brussels draws up plan for 'EU navy'
Daily Telegraph – The European Commission has drawn up plans to set up a European coastguard, which critics fear is a back-door attempt by Brussels to create an EU navy with its own powers to stop and search shipping.
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Wargaming – The Epistemology of War Gaming
US Naval War College Review – War games can produce valid knowledge, useful for planning and decisions, but they can also produce “valid-looking garbage.” There are principles that can help users and analysts tell the difference and avoid the pitfalls, but if game results are to merit reliably the confidence they are now given, the craft of gaming must become a profession.
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Information Warfare – Bloodless theories, bloody wars
Armed Forces Journal – Ralph Peters is skeptical about effects-based operations.
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US Navy – U.S. navy to beef up presence in Asian waters , report says
San Diego Union Tribune – The Pacific fleet of the U.S. Navy aims to step up the number of submarines and aircraft carriers in Asian waters to patrol the region and ensure security, its commander said on Friday.
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US Navy – Key base likely for sale to U.S., Russia
Washington Times – The tiny Balkan republic of Montenegro will offer the United States or Russia the use of a base on its Aegean coast if it wins independence from Serbia in a referendum Sunday, diplomats say.
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US Navy – Local Navy ships deploying for operations in Med, Caribbean
Virginian Pilot – Atlantic Fleet ships are headed to ports both east and south beginning today as the Navy gears up for multi national operations in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
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US Marines – Eyewitness in Afghanistan
Marine Corps Gazette -Thoughts on the loneliness of combat from an Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Friday May 19
NOSI will take a short break and next update on Friday May 19th. See you then!
Geopolitics / Afghanistan – The Other War
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind analyzes the situation in Afghanistan???
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US Navy – Navy sonar range stirs concerns in fertile fishing area
Associated Press – Many fishermen are worried construction of a practice range where sailors would learn to find and track submarines with sonar will destroy the coral bottom that attracts fish of all kinds, and they’re concerned the sonar itself could drive away those fish that remain.
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Geopolitics / Nuclear Weapons – The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy
Foreign Affairs – For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia’s decays and China’s stays small, the era of MAD is ending — and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.
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