Marine Corps Gazette – This case study is designed to demonstrate how the concept of progressive reconstruction could fit into the future expeditionary maneuver warfare concept.
Ground Warfare – The Other Army
New York Times Magazine – There are dozens of private security companies operating in Iraq, and Triple Canopy is one of the largest. How was it formed, who are its men – and what is the line between “security” and warfare?
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Iraq – U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Washington Post – The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.
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US Navy – Hidden Jewel
Sea Power – Little-known inside the Coast Guard, the International Affairs office gains entrÈe to nations officially closed to U.S. military influence.
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US Marines – Marines trade Humvees for donkeys
Associated Press – US Marines are trading Humvees for donkeys in Afghanistan.
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US Navy – Thinking About Basing
Naval War College Review – The United States has entered, and is already responding to, a new and highly uncertain era regarding the purposes, means, and possibilities of acquiring and maintaining bases for the support of operations abroad. History has much to say here, but the answers, choices, and trade-offs will depend most of all on scenariosówhat the nation believes could happen.
Iraq – Lessons for an Exit Strategy
Washington Post – Henry Kissinger draws some parallels between the exit strategy used in Vietnam and the exit strategy being discussed for Iraq.
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Russian Navy – Russia remembers Kursk disaster
BBC – Remembrance services have been held in Russia to mark five years since the Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea after a torpedo exploded on board.
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Royal Australian Navy – Government advances amphibious ship project
Australian Associated Press – The Australian government launched a competition to build two new amphibious naval ships, alerting local shipbuilders to be ready to tender for the $2 billion project early next year.
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History – Lightships Showed the Way
Sea Power – A brief history of Coast Guard light ships.
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US Navy – Japan hosts year's largest military exercise
Associated Press – The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group, a contingent of Marines and dozens of Air Force fighter jets have conducted their biggest inter-service exercises of the year off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
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Chinese Navy – Pentagon report warns of China's growing submarine fleet
Chicago Tribune – A just-released Pentagon report to Congress carries a strong warning that China’s rapidly expanding and improving submarine fleet poses a mounting military threat to the United States.
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US Coast Guard – More Clout
Sea Power – In the aftermath of 9/11, Coast Guard Intelligence fills a unique and growing niche within the 15-member intelligence community.
Fourth Generation Warfare – The Duke of Alba
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on the interesting similarities between Spain’s dealings with the Netherlands in the 16th century, and the United States’ dealings with Iraq today.
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US Coast Guard – The Strong Survive
Sea Power – The Coast Guardís more robust aircraft will be modernized for future use under revised aviation plan.
Russian Navy – Mini-sub sailors recall nightmare
BBC – The seven Russian sailors trapped in their submersible on the Pacific seabed at the weekend say they suffered from thirst, hunger and cold.
New York Times – Divers Say Net Tied Submarine to Listening Device.
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Information Warfare – The Web as Weapon
Washington Post – Abu Musab Zarqawi intertwines action on the ground in Iraq with an impressive propaganda campaign on the Internet.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Modern Warfare Symposium
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on Part 1 of what a state armed service designed for Fourth Generation War may look like.
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Information Warfare – Briton Used Internet As His Bully Pulpit
Washington Post – “The war is not just a legal war or a military war, but it’s an information war and you’ve got to fight it through the press and the Web as much as anything else???The most effective military jihad these days is to use the Internet to spread your ideas, and to use the power of words.”
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Russian Navy – British team rescues trapped sub
BBC – The Russians trapped in a submarine beneath the Pacific Ocean for three days would have died had it not been for British help.
CNN – Crew safe after mini-sub rescue
Daily Telegraph – Submariners in peril are saved by the ‘brotherhood of the sea’.
The Times – British team rescues trapped sub.
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US Coast Guard – Dangerous Waters
Sea Power – Coast Guard funds intended for a new fleet are being eaten away by the growing costs of patching up existing ships and planes.
Russian Navy – Rescuers battle to free sub crew
BBC – A British underwater robot craft begins slicing through fishing nets trapping a Russian sub on the ocean floor.
More from CNN – Robot craft reaches sunken Russian sub.
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Information Warfare – Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations
Washington Post – al Qaeda has become the first guerrilla movement in history to migrate from physical space to cyberspace. With laptops and DVDs, in secret hideouts and at neighborhood Internet cafes, young code-writing jihadists have sought to replicate the training, communication, planning and preaching facilities they lost in Afghanistan with countless new locations on the Internet.
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Iraq – Death of an idealist
The Times – An interesting look at how badly the British occupation of Basra and southern Iraq has gone, and what will be the likely long term consequences???
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Geopolitics / Disease – Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Foreign Affairs – If an influenza pandemic struck today, borders would close, the global economy would shut down, international vaccine supplies and health-care systems would be overwhelmed, and panic would reign. To limit the fallout, the industrialized world must create a detailed response strategy involving the public and private sectors.
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