New York Times – Admiral Vern Clark is stepping down next week as the longest-serving chief of naval operations in a half-century, having spent five years revamping the fleet and trimming Navy budgets in an unusual sacrifice to help pay the Army’s bills in Iraq.
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Indian Navy – Indian aircraft carrier visit
New Straits Times – An Indian task force centered around INS Viraat is visiting Singapore.
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US Navy – Contest for House Panel Chair May Affect Coast Guard Support
Sea Power – Naval news from the Hill.
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Indian Navy – Navy sails catch winds of diplomacy
The Telegraph – The Indian Navy will deploy its aircraft carrier overseas for a first series of exercises in Southeast Asia this month and will follow it up with joint exercises on Indiaís eastern and western seaboards with the US, French and Russian navies???The navy is emerging as New Delhi’s service of choice to implement policies of military diplomacy. An intensification of exercises with the navies of the West off Indiaís coasts and with those of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in pursuance of a look-east policy is placing the Indian Navy at the centre of an emerging military diplomatic grid in the Indian Ocean region.
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US Marines – Joint Task Force Civil Support's Unique CBRNE Training Issues
Marine Corps Gazette – In the tumultuous post-11 September 2001 environment, protection from weapons of mass destruction has taken on a unique importance for the Department of Defense (DoD). Here the author provides a clear look into overriding training issues facing the Nation and DoD.
US Navy – Brain-Based Controller
Sea Power – It is one of several concepts that will lead to a vastly expanded array of missions for the Navyís growing fleet of underwater vehicles.
US Navy – Lockheed Martin Unit to Test Rapid-Fire Millennium Gun At Sea
Sea Power – Naval news from around the defense industry.
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Military Space – Space-Based Weapons
Naval War College Review – Basing weapons in space might in the short term increase U.S. military capabilities, but their broader, long-term effect would be negative-especially because of likely foreign responses, inherent vulnerabilities, and crisis destabilization. A decision not to deploy weapons in space, and a treaty discouraging other nations from deploying them, would be much more in the national interest.
Ground Warfare – The Way We Went
Daily Telegraph – A superb recollection of what exactly infantry combat on the Western Front in World War II was really like. Sixty years ago W F Deedes led his British infantry company across Europe. Last month, aged 92, he retraced his steps, reviving memories and recalling old friends. This is his story, told for the first time. Lord Deedes later went on to become the Editor of the Daily Telegraph from 1974-1986 and continues to write for it.
US Navy – Problems on new ship a bad sign, analyst warns
Virginian Pilot – The ”poor construction and craftsmanship” Navy inspectors say they found last month aboard a new amphibious ship could be an ominous sign for the service and the U.S. shipbuilding industry as they embark on a host of other ship programs, a veteran naval analyst warned.
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US Navy – Revival Plan
Sea Power – A veteran maker of naval aircraft would bring back the seaplane as an unmanned vehicle outfitted for a multitude of missions
US Navy – Report spotlights ship's problems
Virginian Pilot – Two years late and more than $400 million over its original budget, the new amphibious ship USS San Antonio is plagued by bad wiring, inadequate ventilation, corrosion and an array of other problems that reflect “poor construction and craftsmanship standards,” according to Navy inspectors.
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US Marines – The Uchinanchu Perspective
Marine Corps Gazette – For U.S. military personnel in receipt of orders to an overseas base, getting to know the culture, traditions and customs, and basic survival language skills are some of the obvious and fun things to do. For those en route to bases on Okinawa, Japan, becoming familiar with the sensitivities and politics of local nationals toward those bases is becoming an increasingly important ingredient in the cocktail of do’s and don’ts. Knowing how Okinawans view U.S. military bases (the Uchinachu perspective), and the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance they support, is critical to understanding public reaction and attitudes toward base issues and enables military personnel to become better neighbors.
US Navy – Mother Ship
Sea Power – The J-UCAS may launch small, expendable unmanned aircraft for special missions, such as attacking, jamming or decoying enemy air defenses.
Spanish Navy – Spain and Russia to stage joint exercises
UPI – Spanish and Russian officials announced Tuesday that the two nations will have joint naval exercises next year.
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Royal Marines – The major from Swindon leading US marines in Iraq
Daily Telegraph – An officer from the Royal Marines has been put in charge of American troops to make use of the counter-insurgency expertise Britain gained in Northern Ireland.
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Geopolitics / Islam – A Crescent Over Europe?
Air Force – Demographic change could turn the heartland of Western culture into an Islamic redoubt.
US Navy – Wave of the Future?
Sea Power – Officials question whether rising budgets, expanding missions and growing demand for unmanned aerial vehicle programs can be sustained.
Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM 1-A, Fourth Generation War, Is Now Available
US Marines – New Defenses
Sea Power – The Marine Corps foresees a web of integrated air defenses to replace its stove-piped systems and protect expeditionary forces far inland.
Ground Warfare – How are the mighty fallen
The Economist – Russian conscription is one of Europe’s worst human-rights scandals. But the system is too lucrative for the top brass to scrap it.
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US Marines – Interview With the Commander of the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command
Sea Power – The Marines quickly adopt lessons and tactics from Iraq and Afghanistan to prepare them for combat
US Marines – Marines, Iraqi Forces Raid Insurgent Strongholds
Washington Post – U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers have launched an offensive against insurgents in Iraq’s western Anbar province, their sixth since the beginning of May, raiding suspected guerrilla strongholds outside Fallujah.
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Terrorism – Here's a challenge: link the al-Qaeda bombs to poverty and global warming
Daily Telegraph – Historian Niall Ferguson nicely maps out the connections between terrorism, aid to Africa, global warming, and this week’s G8 Summit.
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Terrorism – In Gitmo
New Yorker – A look at the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo.
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