US Naval War College Review – A new and much more capable Chinese navy, especially its submarine force, is being acquired and deployed. It is not yet mature, but its rapid and impressive modernization is making it a navy that is arguably the only one that the U.S. Navy must deter or be able to defeatóunless, under other circumstances, it becomes a high-seas partner.
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US Marines – War Among the Rocks
Leatherneck – Heroes step forward in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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US Navy – Iwo Jima shifts from Katrina to Iraq in new deployment
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group deploys.
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Military Space – Space and Counterspace
Air Force – Space superiority cannot be taken for granted, so the Air Force is making plans to defend it.
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Chinese Navy – The Perils of Threat Inflation
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the Defense Departmentís annual report to Congress, Military Power of the Peopleís Republic of China, 2006.
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US Marines – Conflicting Accounts Of Haditha Killings
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports that inconsistencies in Marine Corps version of the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians has given rise to one of the potentially most damaging events of Iraq war.
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Geopolitics – The Proliferation Security Initiative
US Naval War College Review – The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched in 2003, is an international effort to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states and terrorists. With sixteen core member states and some sixty cooperating nations, it enjoys today many advantages of law and organization in coastal waters, but it lacks useful authority to interdict WMD on the high seas. PSI itself, however, represents an opportunity to alter international law and fill that critical gap.
US Marines – After Haditha, New Look At Training
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports that the U.S. military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately scrutinize reports that should have caught their attention.
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US Marines – U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq
Washington Post – A look at the situation the Marines face in Anabar province.
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US Marines – Let's Be Honest About the Marines in Hadithah
Washington Post – William Arkin puts the situation in Hadithah in perspective.
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Operations Other Than War – U.S. military sends 100 medics to treat Indonesia quake victims
Jakarta Post – The U.S. Navy and Air Force plans to send 100 doctors, nurses and medical technicians to Indonesia to treat victims of the deadly earthquake that struck Central Java.
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Israeli Navy – Israel part of NATO naval exercise
Jerusalem Post – Israel bolstered its defense ties with NATO on Monday after announcing that the navy would participate, for the first time, in a summertime exercise with the Western military alliance.
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US Marines – Coverup of Iraq Incident By Marines Is Alleged
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports on the alleged massacre at Haditha.
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US Navy – Navy developing nanotech to improve ships
Associated Press – With an eye to developing faster ships, the U.S. Navy has teamed up with a New York company and the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop an electronics system that will sharply reduce the size and weight of a warship’s motors.
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Wargaming – Baghdad, USA
Wired – Roadside bombs. Hostile insurgents. 1,200 extras in Arab dress. Welcome to Louisiana and the Army camp known as the Box, where the violence is fake but the fear is for real.
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Ground Warfare – Bringing It All Back Home
New York Times – When Chuck Norris joined the National Guard, he wasn’t expecting to end up in one of the worst corners of the Sunni Triangle. Now he’s home in Pennsylvania, with his fellow guardsmen and memories he just can’t shake.
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Russian Navy – Russia launches research satellite from submarine
Xinhua – Russia launched a research satellite on board a Shtil rocket from a Northern Fleet submarine at the Barents Sea.
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Geopolitics / Latin America – Latin America's Left Turn
Foreign Affairs – With all the talk of Latin America’s turn to the left, few have noticed that there are really two lefts in the region. One has radical roots but is now open-minded and modern; the other is close-minded and stridently populist. Rather than fretting over the left’s rise in general, the rest of the world should focus on fostering the former rather than the latter — because it is exactly what Latin America needs.
US Marines – 'Worst war crime' committed by US in Iraq
New York Times – A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians, Congressional, military and Pentagon officials said Thursday.
The Times – The Marines and a ‘massacre’ in Iraq.
Daily Telegraph – ‘Worst war crime’ committed by US in Iraq.
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US Navy – Rome speeds up leaving of U.S. subs
Washington Times – Italy’s new center-left government will accelerate planned closure of a U.S. nuclear submarine base on the northern coast of the island of Sardinia amid fears nearby residents suffer higher-than-average cancer rates.
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Intelligence – Private Jihad
New Yorker – A look at the woman who became a freelance spy. An example of open-source intelligence in action???
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Royal Australian Navy – Australia rushes to troubled East Timor
Christian Science Monitor – East Timor’s call for help Wednesday opened a new mission for an already stretched Australian military.
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Malaysian Navy – Submarine Sonar Operators Play It By The Ear
Bernama – A look at the training required to take the Malaysian Navy’s new submarine, the Agosta-class Ouessant, to sea.
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US Navy – Carrier GW leaves its mark on a region
Virginian Pilot – The USS George Washington is ending her deployment to the Caribbean Sea.
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Malaysian Navy – First-Time Submariners, But Adapting Well
Bernama – Life aboard the Ouessant, the Agosta-class submarine used by Malaysia’s first batch of submariners for initial training.
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