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.
Royal Australian Navy – East Timor awaits Navy ships briefing
ABC – The HMAS Kanimbla and the HMAS Manoora have been sent to Australia’s northern waters. The vessels are on stand-by in case East Timor requires assistance to quell any further rioting in the capital, Dili.
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US Marines – Where the Danger Is
CBS – With the US Marines in Ramadi, in the center of the insurgency.
???and Part 2 of the story???CBS – Danger In Iraq: Up Close And Personal
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Sri Lankan Navy – Dozens dead' in Sri Lanka clash
BBC – A sea battle between Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces has left at least 45 people dead, the navy says.
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Royal Navy – Islanders take first steps home after a landmark court victory
The Times – Four decades after they were evicted from their island homes by British colonial authorities, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands (including Diego Garcia) came a step closer to realising their dream of returning home yesterday after the High Court issued a landmark judgment in their favour.
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US Navy – Coastal warfare squadron ready to launch at Little Creek
Virginian Pilot – The service’s first coastal warfare squadron on the East Coast sets out from its Virginia Beach base next week. The boats can deploy at a momentís notice to patrol the world for signs of terrorism.
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Israeli Navy – Israel Navy seizes load of high-grade explosives off Gaza
New York Times – The Israeli navy intercepted and seized more than half a ton of high-grade explosives that a Palestinian fishing boat was attempting to bring in to Gaza from nearby Egypt.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Thursday May 11
NOSI will next update on Thursday May 11, see you then.
Iraq – SpecOps unit nearly nabs Zarqawi
Army Times – Sean Naylor on how close the US Special Forces have recently come to capturing the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Geopolitics – Transforming the U.S. Global Defense Posture
US Naval War College Review – The security environment at the start of the twenty-first century is perhaps the most uncertain it has been in the history of the United States. What strategic realities are driving the transformation of American global defense posture to contend with that uncertainty, and what changes is the Department of Defense working to bring about in relationships and capabilities around the world?
Iraq – Merits of Partitioning Iraq or Allowing Civil War Weighed
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks notes that as the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought: that the surest — and perhaps now the only — way to bring stability to Iraq is to divide the country into three pieces.
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Iran – Collapsing Iran
Global Guerillas – John Robb outlines an alternative method for the U.S. to use to dismember Iran’s nuclear capability – dismember the country using effects-based operations. An insightful essay.
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US Marines – Tigers in the Air
Leatherneck – Flying Leathernecks of VMA-542 in the Global War on Terror.
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US Navy – Navy takes action to curb suicides among sub crews
Virginian Pilot – After an unusually high number of suicides among submariners last year and apparently two more this year, Navy officials are looking at what more they can do to prevent tragedies.
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US Navy – The Big E carrier group set for upcoming mission
Virginian Pilot – On Tuesday, the USS Enterprise and its six-ship strike group leave Norfolk for the Middle East and to support the global war on terrorism.
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Iraq – Off With His Head!
Defense in the National Interest – William Lind’s view of the general’s revolt against Rumsfeld.
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Military Space – Military Satellites 2006
Center for Defense Information – Excellent summary that points out that
critical space capabilities are evolving rapidly throughout the world. The age of
microsatellites and low-cost launch will dramatically lower the threshold for nations
desiring space capabilities, likely producing a space-faring boom. The dissemination of
imagery capabilities useful for military operations as well as space surveillance
capabilities will continue ñ meaning that there will soon be ìno place to hideí either on
Earth or in space. (PDF format)
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Canadian Navy – Fire-damaged sub won't be operational until 2012
CBC – Repair work on the fire-ravaged HMCS Chicoutimi won’t start until 2010, leaving the Canadian navy short by one submarine and raising concerns about whether the vessel will ever be returned to service.
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US Marines – SAW 7202-06: 'The French Army at War In Algeria, 1954-1962'
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks attends a class at the School of Advanced Warfighting, Marine Corps University, Quantico.
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US Navy – Sonar Called Likely Stranding Cause
Washington Post – Federal marine specialists have concluded that Navy sonar was the most likely cause of the unusual stranding of melon-headed whales in a Hawaiian bay in 2004.
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Iraq – Sweeping Up
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments upon the U.S. Army War Collegeís Strategic Studies Institute analysis of the Iraq War entitled “Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War,î by David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker.
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US Navy – Pirates! Just what Pakistan Needs
Washington Post – William Arkin on why the US Special Operations Command is showing an increased interest in combating piracy in the Indian Ocean.
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Iraq – Behind the Revolt
Washington Post – Max Hastings puts the “general’s revolt” into some perspective???
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Pakistani Navy – Pakistan takes command patrolling Straits of Hormuz
Reuters – Pakistan took command on Monday of the multi-national Combined Task Force 150 patrolling waters around the Arabian Peninsula to stop terrorism and piracy, and search vessels suspected of smuggling arms or material used for making nuclear weapons.
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