San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group returns from a deployment in the Gulf.
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Piracy – Piracy 'on the rise' off Somalia
BBC – Serious pirate attacks off the Somali coast have jumped dramatically after a two-year lull.
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Nonlethal Weapons – Cruise lines turn to sonic weapon
BBC – A closer look at the nonlethal weapon that was used to protect a cruise ship from pirate attack.
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US Navy – The Flyer
Sea Power – An interview with Lt. Gen. Michael Hough, Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Aviation
Piracy – Ship Blasted Pirates With Sonic Weapon
Associated Press – The crew of a luxury cruise ship used a non-lethal sonic weapon that blasts earsplitting noise in a directed beam while being attacked by a gang of pirates off Africa this weekend
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Iraq – Newsmaker: Peter Pace
PBS NewsHour – An interview with Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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US Navy – Pitching In
Sea Power – Sea-going helicopters will help relieve the operational load faced by U.S. Army ground forces in Iraq.
Piracy – Cruise ship repels Somali pirates
BBC – A cruise ship sailing off Somalia has beaten back gunmen in speedboats who opened fire on it in an apparent pirate attack which terrified passengers.
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US Marines – Major Offensive Hits Insurgents on Iraqi Border
New York Times – Thousands of American and Iraqi troops laid siege on Saturday to this town near the Syrian border in one of the largest military assaults since American-led forces stormed the guerrilla stronghold of Falluja last year.
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US Marines – Realignment puts Navy's land forces under one command
Virginian Pilot – Recognizing a growing need for sailors trained in close combat and security, the Navy has realigned and plans to expand its land-based forces under a single command.
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Geopolitics / Europe – Transatlantic Tension and Threat Perception
Naval War College Review – Because of profoundly different understandings about both the nature and responsibility of federal authority, Washington and European capitals are talking past each other. The answer to the question, ìWhat are the threats to domestic security for which the federal authority is responsible?î sounds very different on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Ground Warfare – The Rise of the Body Bots
IEEE Spectrum – Science-fiction fans have long become accustomed to the idea of steely commandos clad in robotic exoskeletons taking on huge, vicious, extraterrestrial beasts, shadowy evil cyborgs, or even each other. Supersoldiers encased in sleek, self-powered armor figure memorably in such works as Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 novel Starship Troopers, Joe W. Haldeman’s 1975 The Forever War, and many other books and movies???Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories.
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Singaporean Navy – Singapore buys two second-hand Swedish submarines
DPA – Singapore has bought two second-hand Swedish Vastergotland-class submarines to upgrade its navy.
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History – Nelson at Trafalgar: He Did His Duty
Military History – Horatio Nelson’s two-column charge into the Franco-Spanish line was risky, but it won him the battle — at the cost of his life.
US Marines – On new tour, Marines to get big boost from Iraqi battalions
Copley News Service – When the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force resumes responsibility for volatile Anbar province in Iraq in February, the Marines will be bolstered by 18 battalions from the new Iraqi army, plus a large number of Iraqi police and border security forces.
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US Navy – In Demand
Sea Power – The number of unmanned aircraft deployed by U.S. forces has grown exponentially, and the nationís combatant commanders want even more.
US Navy – Deployment of 6,000 sailors and Marines begins Friday
Virginian Pilot – The USS Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group prepares to deploy.
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US Navy – Warship training tactic under scrutiny
Virginian Pilot – A Cold War tactic in which one ship tries to force another to turn may be at the root of collision between the Norfolk-based destroyers McFaul and Winston S. Churchill.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Sichelschnitt
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting look, by William Lind, of what happens when two armies representing different generations of warfare fight each other???
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US Marines – Rumsfeld OKs Expansion of Commando Forces
Associated Press – In a historic step designed to bolster the military’s ability to fight a global war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday he approved adding Marines to U.S. Special Operations Command.
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US Navy – Presidential Helicopter Program
Sea Power – Naval news from around the industry.
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Royal Navy – Navy swoop nets £200m of cocaine
BBC – A Royal Navy warship has seized two tonnes of cocaine worth £200m during a drugs bust in the western Caribbean.
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Taiwanese Navy – Two destroyers sail for Taiwan
China Post – The United States has delivered to Taiwan two of the four Kidd-class destroyers Taipei has ordered in a move to boost the island’s defenses against rival China.
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US Navy – Companies Studying Persistent Unmanned Maritime ISR for Navy
Sea Power – Naval news from around the US defense industry
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US Marines – New U.S.-Japan Plan to Realign Military Defenses
Washington Post – The United States and Japan agreed yesterday to move forward with the biggest overhaul of the Pacific alliance in decades, aimed at bolstering military cooperation against new threats while consolidating U.S. forces on the island and withdrawing about 7,000 Marines from Okinawa.
Japan Times – U.S. to shift 7,000 marines from Okinawa to Guam.
Associated Press – U.S., Japan Announce Military Agreement
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