The Hindu – The aircraft carriers INS Viraat and Charles de Gaulle will exercise together next week.
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Geopolitics / Iran – The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Informal Networks
Naval War College Review – Iranís nuclear ambitions are worrisome, potentially dangerous, and obscure to the West. It may be possible, however, to influence the small circle of decision makers from the outside through the networks in which they act, and the links between these networks. In these informal contexts, agencies and individuals involved in nuclear issues are susceptible to public comment.
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Royal Navy – Ousted islanders to get a brief taste of home
Daily Telegraph – About 100 former inhabitants of Diego Garcia and other nearby Indian Ocean islands, who were cleared out by Britain to make way for a secret American base, will return to their abandoned homes later this month for a brief but emotional visit.
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Information Warfare – Australia Embraces Net-Centric Warfighting
Aviation Week and Space Technology – Australia’s top planners began with the search for an airborne radar that could pick out very small targets at great distances. But that vision has made a quantum leap into the esoteric world of network-centric warfare with development of the Wedgetail aircraft.
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Canadian Navy – Military could arm coast guard ships for Arctic sovereignty mission: admiral
Canadian Press – Will Canada arm its icebreakers to help enforce its sovereignty in the North?
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US Navy – US captures 13 Somali 'pirates'
BBC – Thirteen suspected pirates involved in clashes with the US Navy off the Somali coast on Saturday have been captured, a spokesman for the men says.
Virginian Pilot – Captain praises response of crew to pirate skirmish.
Virginian Pilot – U.S. prowls Africa’s coast to extinguish threats from pirates.
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Geopolitics / Afghanistan – The waiting game: A stronger Taliban lies low, hoping the U.S. will leave Afghanistan
Armed Forces Journal – Excellent article by Sean Naylor on the current state of affairs in Afghanistan.
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Transformation – The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs
Weekly Standard – Interesting essay by Ralph Peters on who he feels the real threats to the U.S. are.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday March 22
NOSI will be taking a spring break and will next update on Tuesday March 22nd. See you then!
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Iraq – The Insurgency
PBS Frontline – An excellent investigation into the people who are fighting against US and coalition forces in Iraq.
Read the Transcript and the Interviews, especially the one with Colonel H.R. McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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US Navy – Unchanged Navy updates its look with new uniform
Virginian Pilot – Tomorrow’s sailor is going to look a lot like today’s Marine.
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US Navy – The Navy's swimming spy plane
Popular Science – Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.
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Geopolitics / Grand Strategy – America's Most Dangerous Enemy
Defense and the National Interest – Part three in a series of articles about grand strategy in a 4GW Era. “Terrorism.” “Islamofascism” Iran. China. So many enemies – what’s a superpower to do?
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US Navy – Sharks are Pentagon's latest spy recruits
Daily Telegraph – Shark brain implants that could turn the fish into “stealth spies” are being studied in a research project funded by the Pentagon.
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US Marines – Marine training aims to prepare for Iraqi warfare
Virginian Pilot – With troops patrolling and fighting in hard-won, door-to-door battles against insurgents, the Marine Corps is going to great lengths to replicate the stresses and strains of the Iraqi war.
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Geopolitics / Grand Strategy – The Fate of Israel
Defense and the National Interest – Part two in a series of articles about grand strategy in a 4GW Era. Demonstrating the difficulty of distinguishing strong from weak in 4GW, and that choosing the wrong grand strategy can be terminal for a state.
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US Navy – Three more submarines coming to San Diego
Copley News Service – Following the directions from a recently released defense analysis to increase its presence in the Pacific, the Navy said it will shift six submarines from the East Coast to the Pacific Fleet.
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US Marines – Pendleton Marines to start third combat tour
Copley News Service – The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force will assume responsibility for Iraq’s volatile Anbar province Tuesday, starting the Camp Pendleton-based command’s third combat tour in the conflict that already has killed 657 Marines and sailors, and injured 5,255.
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Chinese Navy – China's Nuclear Forces
Imaging Notes – An exclusive preview of Chinaís limited nuclear capabilities, the full report of which will be published by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Federation of American Scientists later this year. The story features a first look at Chinaís nuclear submarine, the Xia, and shows how commercial remote sensing can unwrap some of the mysteries of countries and regions in the world to which we have limited access.
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Iran – Signs That the United States is About to Bomb Iran
StrategyPage – Before any major military operation, there are always tell tale signs. With all the talk about Israel or the United States bombing Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it would be wise to check for the signs before taking the pundit prattle too seriously.
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Geopolitics / Falklands – Falkland fear as Argentina steps up show of strength
Scotsman – A review of the current tensions surrounding the Falkland Islands.
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Iraq – In the Battle for Baghdad, U.S. Turns War on Insurgents
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks’ interviews with U.S. soldiers from top generals to front-line grunts in Tall Afar, Mosul, Ramadi, Balad and throughout Baghdad, as well as briefings at the U.S. military headquarters for the Middle East in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, reveal a markedly different war from that seen in 2003 and ’04, or even last year.
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Geopolitics / Central Asia – U.S. Foreign Policy in Central Asia
Naval War College Review – The United States is limited in its ability to effect change in Central Asia by geopolitics, the nature of the local regimes, and a lack of leverage. American policy must therefore use what leverage it has more effectively, through better understanding of regional dynamics.
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US Navy – Commander says JFK should be retired ASAP
Virginian Pilot – Another nail in the coffin of the USS John F. Kennedy.
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US Marines – Marine Combat Artist Keeps Tradition Alive
Associated Press – The Marine Corps formally entered the world of military special operations Friday by establishing a separate command devoted to small-unit tactics and stealthy reconnaissance.
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