Reuters – The United States on Monday confirmed that two Iranian navy ships had visited Indian ports last month, but played down the contact as the Bush administration struggles to win congressional approval for a landmark U.S.-India civilian nuclear energy deal.
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US Navy – Beach-based ship aids piracy victims off Somalia
Virginian Pilot – The crew of the Little Creek-based dock landing ship Oak Hill has helped an Indian-flagged vessel believed to have been looted and then set adrift by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
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Iraq – Iraq messy and slow, but war is winnable
Philadelphia Inquirer – Lt. Col. John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, wants Americans to understand three things about the war in Iraq.
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Iranian Navy – Iran sends a message to the West by boasting about its high-speed torpedo
Daily Telegraph – Iran announced that it has carried out successful test-firings of the world’s fastest torpedo, capable of outrunning any warship.
Associated Press – Iran says it has successfully test-fired new high-speed torpedo.
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Royal Navy – Stealth sub to give navy's SAS a hidden edge
The Times – A new remote-controlled unmanned British submarine could transform the way in which the Royal Navyís Special Boat Service spies out beaches and landing zones.
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US Navy – SSGN – A Transformation Limited by Legacy Command and Control
Naval War College Review – The SSGN cruise-missile submarine, when it enters service, will be the nationís only asset that can deliver significant and immediate deep strikes without reliance upon land-based aircraft. To do that in the political and operational circumstances likely to arise, it will have to be able to work for several masters at the same time. How could this be done given todayís command and control constraints?
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Sri Lankan Navy – Rebels, navy clash off Sri Lanka
BBC – Sri Lanka’s navy and Tamil Tiger rebels have exchanged gunfire off the eastern coast of Trincomalee.
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Indian Navy – Navy team to US to seal deal on large amphibious warship
Indian Express – India is purchasing the Austin-class landing vessel, USS Trenton.
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Iranian Navy – No training for Iranian Navy in India
Press Trust of India – India is not training the Iranian Navy.
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US Navy – Study on Whale Stranding, Sonar Is Inconclusive
Washington Post – Federal ocean scientists said yesterday they were unable to determine whether Navy sonar caused a mass stranding of whales on the North Carolina shore last year.
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US Navy – GW strike group will head south for training
Virginian Pilot – The US Navy will send The USS George Washington carrier strike group, with four ships, a 60-plane air wing and 6,500 sailors, to Caribbean and South American waters for a major training exercise – UNITAS.
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Royal Navy – Sea Harrier stars of Falklands fly for last time
Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier jump-jets, which played a vital role in the Falklands conflict 24 years ago, made their final flight yesterday.
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US Marines – ROE v. RUF
Marine Corps Gazette – It is imperative that Marine forces understand, and are trained to understand, the difference between rules of engagement and rules for the use of force.
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Indian Navy – Indian, French navies plan exercises from Monday
The Hindu – The aircraft carriers INS Viraat and Charles de Gaulle will exercise together next week.
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Geopolitics / Iran – The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Informal Networks
Naval War College Review – Iranís nuclear ambitions are worrisome, potentially dangerous, and obscure to the West. It may be possible, however, to influence the small circle of decision makers from the outside through the networks in which they act, and the links between these networks. In these informal contexts, agencies and individuals involved in nuclear issues are susceptible to public comment.
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Royal Navy – Ousted islanders to get a brief taste of home
Daily Telegraph – About 100 former inhabitants of Diego Garcia and other nearby Indian Ocean islands, who were cleared out by Britain to make way for a secret American base, will return to their abandoned homes later this month for a brief but emotional visit.
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Information Warfare – Australia Embraces Net-Centric Warfighting
Aviation Week and Space Technology – Australia’s top planners began with the search for an airborne radar that could pick out very small targets at great distances. But that vision has made a quantum leap into the esoteric world of network-centric warfare with development of the Wedgetail aircraft.
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Canadian Navy – Military could arm coast guard ships for Arctic sovereignty mission: admiral
Canadian Press – Will Canada arm its icebreakers to help enforce its sovereignty in the North?
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US Navy – US captures 13 Somali 'pirates'
BBC – Thirteen suspected pirates involved in clashes with the US Navy off the Somali coast on Saturday have been captured, a spokesman for the men says.
Virginian Pilot – Captain praises response of crew to pirate skirmish.
Virginian Pilot – U.S. prowls Africa’s coast to extinguish threats from pirates.
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Geopolitics / Afghanistan – The waiting game: A stronger Taliban lies low, hoping the U.S. will leave Afghanistan
Armed Forces Journal – Excellent article by Sean Naylor on the current state of affairs in Afghanistan.
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Transformation – The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs
Weekly Standard – Interesting essay by Ralph Peters on who he feels the real threats to the U.S. are.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday March 22
NOSI will be taking a spring break and will next update on Tuesday March 22nd. See you then!
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Iraq – The Insurgency
PBS Frontline – An excellent investigation into the people who are fighting against US and coalition forces in Iraq.
Read the Transcript and the Interviews, especially the one with Colonel H.R. McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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US Navy – Unchanged Navy updates its look with new uniform
Virginian Pilot – Tomorrow’s sailor is going to look a lot like today’s Marine.
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US Navy – The Navy's swimming spy plane
Popular Science – Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.
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