Virginian Pilot – Brown-water veterans are lending their expertise to the US Navy’s new brown-water force.
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US Marines – US and Japan make troop cost deal
BBC – Japan and the United States have resolved a dispute over the costs of relocating 8,000 US marines from Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam.
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Iraq – Iraqi Leader, in Frantic Flight, Eluded U.S. Strikes
Some interesting excerpts from the new book on the Iraq War entitled “Inside the Command” by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor.
New York Times – Iraqi Leader, in Frantic Flight, Eluded U.S. Strikes
New York Times – Even as U.S. Invaded, Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat
New York Times – Dash to Baghdad Left Top U.S. Generals Divided
New York Times – After Invasion, Point Man For Iraq Was Shunted Aside
New York Times – As Policy Decisions Loom, a Code of Silence Is Broken
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Geopolitics – Old States, New Threats
Washington Post – Robert Kaplan on the different types of dictators in the world.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday April 25
NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Tuesday April 25. See you then!
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South Korean Navy – South Korea, Japan Raise Tension Over Islet Group
Washington Post – A long-simmering dispute over a group of islets escalated sharply Wednesday, with South Korea dispatching a flotilla of 20 patrol ships toward the territory as the Japanese coast guard sought to conduct an official survey in surrounding waters.
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US Navy – Unmanned subs would revolutionize warfare, analyst says
GovExec – To counter China’s rapidly strengthening submarine fleet, the United States should spur a revolution in undersea warfare by focusing greater attention and resources on developing advanced unmanned underwater vehicles
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US Marines – Fighting Through the Fog of War
Marine Corps Gazette – Overcoming the friction points and succeeding in combat in the battle for An Nasiriyah on 23 March 2003.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Further Reflections on Unrestricted Warfare
Defense and the National Interest – Itís been seven years since two Chinese soldiers, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, released their treatise, Unrestricted Warfare. But their 228-page book should be read again by policymakers and warfighters because their points are directly relevant to the dangers facing the U.S. and its gargantuan military-industrial-Congressional complex.
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Iran – The Pentagon Preps for Iran
Washington Post – William Arkin summarizes US war planning to date for Iraq.
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Royal Marines – Marines to 'seek and destroy' Taliban insurgents
Daily Telegraph – British troops will be ordered to conduct “seek and destroy” operations in southern Afghanistan, despite an explicit government assurance that this would not happen.
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US Navy – 1,100 ready to surge into troubled waters
Virginian Pilot – The Fleet Response Plan in action???
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Iraq – Civilians Reign Over U.S. Military by Tradition and Design
New York Times – Should retired generals speak out against the Secretary of Defense?
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Geopolitics / Iraq – Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq
Foreign Affairs – During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community’s former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community’s expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.
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Iran – Despite Denials, U.S. Plans for Iran War
Washington Post – William Arkin describes the US Army’s wargaming / warplanning for an invasion of Iraq.
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Iran – Iran: Send in the Marines?
Washington Post – William Arkin describes wargaming / warplanning by the Marines for an invasion of Iran.
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Iraq – The Revolt Against Rumsfeld
Slate – Fred Kaplan writes on how the officer corps is getting restless.
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Iraq – Rumsfeld Rebuked By Retired Generals
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks documents the growing list of retired generals calling for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld.
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US Navy – Aircraft carrier group heads to Caribbean
Associated Press – Aboard the USS Washington in the Carrbbean Sea.
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US Navy – Nassau strike group on its way home from Middle East
Virginian Pilot – The USS Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group prepares to return home.
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Iran – Wild Speculation and the Nuclear Option
Washington Post – William Arkin reviews some past US wargames that involved war in Iran.
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Wargaming – Troops Learn to Not Offend
Wired – A seemingly harmless gesture could get a soldier in hot water, especially in a war-torn country. Body language that’s meaningless in the United States — such as showing the soles of one’s feet — is offensive in Iraq. So the American military is adopting a new video game created to help soldiers navigate the mysterious world of international nonverbal language.
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Iran – The Iran Plans
New Yorker – Seymour Hersh’s article from the New Yorker on US plans to attack Iran. This is the article that caused the flurry of reporting in Sunday’s newspapers???
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Geopolitics – A General With an Alternative Vision
Washington Post – A review of General Zinni’s new book, The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America’s Power and Purpose.
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US Navy – New Navy force will take the fight upriver in Iraq
Virginian Pilot – The Navyís river combat force, based at Little Creek, is starting from scratch, since inland patrolling was last done in Vietnam. This time, 200 sailors will be watching the waterways of Baghdad.
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