Bellona – In 2005, the Russian Navy will be supplied with two strategic nuclear-powered submarines Yury Dolgoruky and Dmitry Donskoy carrying on board the newest sea-based missiles systems “Bulava”, claims the First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Belousov.
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History – In the Lair of the Wolf Pack: Hitler's French U-Boat Bases
World War II Magazine – Adolf Hitler turned submarine bases along the French coast into some of the most feared fortifications in the world.
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Canadian Navy – Navy qualified sub-standard submariners
Canadian Press – A report documenting serious training deficiencies in Canada’s submarine force.
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US Navy – US carrier begins Aceh pull-out
BBC – The USS Abraham Lincoln which despatched the first helicopters to deliver aid to Aceh after the tsunami is to leave the area.
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US Navy – Admiral faces uncharted waters with new classes of surface ships
Virginian Pilot – The Navy’s emerging surface ship force that Rear Adm. Terrance T. Etnyre will command from the Pacific probably will resemble little of the present fleet and even less of the one he’s known for the past 30 years.
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Terrorism – Al Qaeda's New Front
Frontline – An investigation into the threat radical jihadists pose to Western Europe and its allies – including the U.S. Read the Transcript, and the Interviews, Special Reports, and essay on Al Qaeda Today.
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Terrorism – Magnum Force
Wired – Thomas P.M. Barnett on what Dirty Harry can teach the new Geneva conventions.
US Navy – Raytheon's Penetrating JSOW Enters Full-Rate Production
Sea Power – Defense news from around the fleet.
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Operations Other Than War – Mission to Sumatra
New Yorker – The marines of Expeditionary Strike Group Five take on the tsunami. Outstanding overview of their humanitarian operations in Indonesia.
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US Coast Guard – Coast Guard Turns Its Eyes Underwater
New York Times – Fearing that the nation’s ports are vulnerable to an underwater attack, the United States Coast Guard is extending its domestic law-enforcement mission into a new arena: the sea below.
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French Navy – French deliver tsunami aid with panache
Associated Press – Aboard the helicopter carrier Jeanne D’Arc off of Indonesia.
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US Navy – U.S. Military Scaling Back Relief Ops
Associated Press – The USS Abraham Lincoln prepares to return home.
Military Sealift Command – Maritime Administration
SeaPower – The state of the merchant marine in January 2005.
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Royal Navy – US firm to land carrier contract
BBC – A project management contract for two Royal Navy aircraft carriers, currently under construction in Scotland, is likely to be handed to a US firm.
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US Navy – U.S. hospital ship to sail from Singapore to tsunami-hit Indonesia
Deutsche Presse Agentur – The hospital ship USNS Mercy sets sail from Singapore to a position off of Sumatra.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – The Sorrows Of Old Werther
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on what powers Fourth Generation Warfare – Belief – which is something the West lacks.
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US Navy – US Navy officer attacks 'travelling circus of aid workers' for impeding the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia
Daily Telegraph – An interesting dissenting view on the tsunami relief effort, from aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Transformation – The Pentagon's Debate Over What Iraq Means
Command Post – Thomas P.M. Barnett on how the ability to wage network centric warfare and fourth generation warfare will be essential in a transformed US military.
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Geopolitics / Law – Legal Appraisal of Military Action in Iraq
Naval War College Review – Saddam Hussein, in over a decade of deception and defiance ending in March 2003, repudiated sixteen United Nations Security Council resolutions designed to ensure that Iraq did not threaten international peace and circumvented ten others imposing economic sanctions. What is the international law related to intervention in the case of such violations? The values underlying the UN Charter must be reconciled with its procedures.
US Navy – Whale Stranding in N.C. Followed Navy Sonar Use
Washington Post – At least 37 whales beached themselves and died along the North Carolina shore earlier this month soon after Navy vessels on a deep-water training mission off the coast used powerful sonar as part of the exercise.
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Iraq – A Man of the Shadows
New Yorker – The difficult past and the uncertain future of Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s interim Prime Minister.
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History – The Greatest Raid of All
World War II Magazine – The British raid on St. Nazaire, France, eliminated a vital German port facility and cemented the commandos’ reputation as redoubtable fighters.
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US Navy – Navy Releases Photos of Crash Damage to Nuclear Submarine
New York Times – Pictures of the damaged bow of the USS San Francisco.
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US Coast Guard – Coast Guard Organization and Mission
SeaPower – The state of the Coast Guard in January 2005.
US Marines – Marine Corps Organization and Mission
SeaPower – The state of the Corps in January 2005.
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