Chronicle Herald – HMCS Athabaskan will join the Standing NATO Response Force Maritime Group 1 in Kiel, Germany. On Jan. 26, the destroyer will become the flagship for the squadron of Canadian, American, German, Portuguese and Polish vessels.
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Iraq – Changing the Army for Counterinsurgency Operations
Military Review – A senior officer in the British Army has published a damning indictment of American military conduct in Iraq, voicing publicly the private views of many of his peers.
Commentary on the article can be found in The Times, Daily Telegraph and Washington Post.
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US Navy – Navy Tests Look-to-Talk Device
Wired – The U.S. Navy is field-testing a new short-range communications device called LightSpeed that could soon let sailors talk securely up to two miles away — just by looking at each other. The device uses infrared, similar to that of a television remote control, to transmit audio and visual information.
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US Navy – Can sonar, sea life mix?
Scripps Howard – Just as the U.S. Navy is gearing up to install a 660-square-mile sonar training range off the coast of North Carolina, evidence is mounting that sonar harms some whales.
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Geopolitics / Iraq – Writing of Wrongs
Foreign Affairs – Professor Lawrence Freedman reviews The Assassins’ Gate, by George Packer – a searing account of the Bush administration’s failures in Iraq.
US Marines – Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Light Armor
New York Times – A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.
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Sri Lankan Navy – Deadly attack on Sri Lanka navy
CNN – A nearly 4-year-old cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels is coming under pressure after at least 13 sailors were killed when an explosives-laden boat rammed into a Sri Lankan navy vessel early Saturday.
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US Navy – San Diego-based Reagan heads for sea on maiden voyage
San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Ronald Reagan heads out for a routine six-month deployment to the western Pacific.
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Russian Navy – We won a cold battle beneath the waves
The Scotsman – Another look at last August’s rescue of a stranded Russian Navy mini-submarine.
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US Marines – Information Suggests 3/25 Marines May Have Been Betrayed
Ohio News Network – Reports surfacing about the death of 20 Brook Park Marine reservists indicate that the Marines may have been betrayed.
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US Marines – Soldier Known As The "Marlboro Man" Faces A Different Battle
WKYT – An eastern Kentucky soldier became known as the Marlboro Man after his picture was featured in newspapers and on TV stations across the country???he has since been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.
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French Navy – French aircraft-carrier resumes its journey to India for breaking-up
Agence France Presse – A French aircraft-carrier Clemenceau, insulated with asbestos, at the centre of a court battle with environmental groups, resumed its final journey to an Indian breaker’s yard yesterday
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Pakistani Navy – Pak-navy decommissioned 4 more French origin submarines
International News Network – The Pakistani Navy on Monday decommissioned four of its Daphne class French origin submarines.
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History – Loss of a Yankee SSBN
Undersea Warfare – A look at the loss of Yankee-class submarine K-219 in October 1986 following an explosion in missile tube number six.
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Geopolitics – Signs of hope and despair
Winnipeg Free Press – Gwynne Dyer ends the year on an interesting note, as always, summarizing the state of conflict in the world in the last year???
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Iraq – The future of America — in Iraq
Los Angeles Times – Robert Kaplan says if you want to meet the future political leaders of America, go to Iraq.
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Nigerian Navy – 96 hours with the Nigerian Navy
Independent – Life in today’s Nigerian Navy.
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US Navy – Navy hospital corpsmen rely on instinct
Daily Press – A look at the life of a Hospital Corpsman.
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US Navy – Winter to assume secretary of Navy post
Virginian Pilot – A look at the new Secretary of the Navy.
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US Navy -Navy Secretary England steps down, allowing new leader
Virginian Pilot – Navy Secretary Gordon England – who has also been serving as the acting deputy defense secretary – gave up his Navy post today, clearing the way for a new naval leader. The move will allow Donald Winter to be sworn in as Navy secretary next week.
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Wargaming – Streamlined databases drive military simulation
Military & Aerospace Electronics – Improved displays and screens are helping engineers build sharper pictures, but the greatest improvement in military simulation and mission rehearsal has been in software. Military users strive to feed the simulators with real-world, nearly real-time data freshly collected from satellite-based sensors.
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Russian Navy – New ballistic missile launched from Russian Typhoon nuclear sub
Bellona – The Russian strategic nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy launched the new Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea.
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Russian Navy – Russian navy will not get Delta-IV Tula this year
Bellona – The nuclear submarine K-114 Tula Project 667BDRM, having undergone repair at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk in Arkhangelsk region, will not be handed over to the Russian Navy as planned???The reason is the Ministry of Defence’s major debts to the plant.
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US Marines – Sometimes It Takes a Marine
Marine Corps Gazette – The Marines contributation to Operation Anaconda.
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US Marines – What Our NCOs Are Saying
Leatherneck – Noncommissioned officers are up-front leaders, so who better to provide lessons for improving combat capabilities and tactics.
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