Asahi Shimbun – A look at the US Navy’s role in Japan.
Ashai Simbun – Yokosuka lets U.S. Navy put its best ships forward.
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Afghanistan – We Were Abandoned
Macleans – An elite unit of Canadian snipers went from standouts to outcasts — victims, many say, of a witch hunt driven by jealousy and fear.
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Afghanistan – US sets up £215m deal for Afghan arms – from Russia
Daily Telegraph – American defence officials have secretly requested a “prodigious quantity” of ammunition from Russia to supply the Afghan army in case a Democrat president takes over in Washington and pulls out US troops.
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Afghanistan – Navy's role in Afghanistan grows
Virginian Pilot – With the war in Iraq straining U.S. Army and Marine units, missions in Afghanistan are increasingly being turned over to the Navy and Air Force.
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Miscellaneous – Full steam ahead: Brussels draws up plan for 'EU navy'
Daily Telegraph – The European Commission has drawn up plans to set up a European coastguard, which critics fear is a back-door attempt by Brussels to create an EU navy with its own powers to stop and search shipping.
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Wargaming – The Epistemology of War Gaming
US Naval War College Review – War games can produce valid knowledge, useful for planning and decisions, but they can also produce “valid-looking garbage.” There are principles that can help users and analysts tell the difference and avoid the pitfalls, but if game results are to merit reliably the confidence they are now given, the craft of gaming must become a profession.
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Information Warfare – Bloodless theories, bloody wars
Armed Forces Journal – Ralph Peters is skeptical about effects-based operations.
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US Navy – U.S. navy to beef up presence in Asian waters , report says
San Diego Union Tribune – The Pacific fleet of the U.S. Navy aims to step up the number of submarines and aircraft carriers in Asian waters to patrol the region and ensure security, its commander said on Friday.
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US Navy – Key base likely for sale to U.S., Russia
Washington Times – The tiny Balkan republic of Montenegro will offer the United States or Russia the use of a base on its Aegean coast if it wins independence from Serbia in a referendum Sunday, diplomats say.
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US Navy – Local Navy ships deploying for operations in Med, Caribbean
Virginian Pilot – Atlantic Fleet ships are headed to ports both east and south beginning today as the Navy gears up for multi national operations in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
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US Marines – Eyewitness in Afghanistan
Marine Corps Gazette -Thoughts on the loneliness of combat from an Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Friday May 19
NOSI will take a short break and next update on Friday May 19th. See you then!
Geopolitics / Afghanistan – The Other War
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind analyzes the situation in Afghanistan???
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US Navy – Navy sonar range stirs concerns in fertile fishing area
Associated Press – Many fishermen are worried construction of a practice range where sailors would learn to find and track submarines with sonar will destroy the coral bottom that attracts fish of all kinds, and they’re concerned the sonar itself could drive away those fish that remain.
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Geopolitics / Nuclear Weapons – The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy
Foreign Affairs – For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia’s decays and China’s stays small, the era of MAD is ending — and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.
Royal Australian Navy – East Timor awaits Navy ships briefing
ABC – The HMAS Kanimbla and the HMAS Manoora have been sent to Australia’s northern waters. The vessels are on stand-by in case East Timor requires assistance to quell any further rioting in the capital, Dili.
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US Marines – Where the Danger Is
CBS – With the US Marines in Ramadi, in the center of the insurgency.
???and Part 2 of the story???CBS – Danger In Iraq: Up Close And Personal
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Sri Lankan Navy – Dozens dead' in Sri Lanka clash
BBC – A sea battle between Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces has left at least 45 people dead, the navy says.
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Royal Navy – Islanders take first steps home after a landmark court victory
The Times – Four decades after they were evicted from their island homes by British colonial authorities, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands (including Diego Garcia) came a step closer to realising their dream of returning home yesterday after the High Court issued a landmark judgment in their favour.
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US Navy – Coastal warfare squadron ready to launch at Little Creek
Virginian Pilot – The service’s first coastal warfare squadron on the East Coast sets out from its Virginia Beach base next week. The boats can deploy at a momentís notice to patrol the world for signs of terrorism.
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Israeli Navy – Israel Navy seizes load of high-grade explosives off Gaza
New York Times – The Israeli navy intercepted and seized more than half a ton of high-grade explosives that a Palestinian fishing boat was attempting to bring in to Gaza from nearby Egypt.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Thursday May 11
NOSI will next update on Thursday May 11, see you then.
Iraq – SpecOps unit nearly nabs Zarqawi
Army Times – Sean Naylor on how close the US Special Forces have recently come to capturing the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Geopolitics – Transforming the U.S. Global Defense Posture
US Naval War College Review – The security environment at the start of the twenty-first century is perhaps the most uncertain it has been in the history of the United States. What strategic realities are driving the transformation of American global defense posture to contend with that uncertainty, and what changes is the Department of Defense working to bring about in relationships and capabilities around the world?
Iraq – Merits of Partitioning Iraq or Allowing Civil War Weighed
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks notes that as the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought: that the surest — and perhaps now the only — way to bring stability to Iraq is to divide the country into three pieces.
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