BBC – India is to bolster its navy with the purchase of six Franco-Spanish Scorpene-class submarines in a deal worth $1.8billion.
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US Marines – Set to Soar
Sea Power – The MV-22 Osprey overcomes its troubled past but is too fast for current armed escorts. Will the Cobra Zulu copter provide a solution?
Terrorism – Taking Stock of the Forever War
New York Times Magazine – A terrorist leader four years ago, Osama bin Laden is now an ideology as well ó and a viral movement.Terrorist attacks worldwide are on the rise. Iraq could well end up a “failed” state. Maybe it’s time to stop fighting on their terms.
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Terrorism – Lost at Tora Bora
New York Times Magazine – In December 2001, Osama bin Laden was cornered in a mountainous region along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Why wasn’t he captured? And why can’t he be apprehended now?
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US Marines – Pachinko Ball Leadership or Leadership by Thirds, Quarters, and Five or Six Good Rules
Marine Corps Gazette – The author provides a fresh look at leadership challenges Marines and sailors face these days and offers some commonsense solutions using the Japanese pinball game of pachinko in his analogy.
Chinese Navy – The Modernization of the Chinese Navy
Power and Interest News Report – A number of advanced warships will gradually come into service in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (P.L.A.N.) in the next two years. The bulk of these ships will belong to two new guided missile destroyer classes called 052B and 052C. The 052C will be fitted with an advanced integrated air defense system, supposedly similar to the U.S. Aegis phased-array radar display, with a high capability to engage multiple targets simultaneously.
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US Navy – Forward Progress
Sea Power – The sea basing scheme that would revolutionize U.S. power projection moves toward Joint Chiefs’ approval as a joint warfighting concept.
Chinese Navy – Japan's Rivalry With China Is Stirring a Crowded Sea
New York Times – In a muscular display of its rising military and economic might, China deployed a fleet of five warships on Friday near a gas field in the East China Sea, a potentially resource-rich area that is disputed by China and Japan.
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Canadian Navy – Canadian hurricane relief ships to arrive Monday, unbeknownst to survivors
CBC – Canada is sending a task force to aid relief efforts on the Gulf Coast???
???as did the Dutch and Mexican Navies: CBS – Gulf Coast Invaded???With Kindness.
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US Navy – Rerouted: Senator Lott of Mississippi steps in to divert hospital ship
Philadelphia Inquirer – US Senators now appear to be in charge of US Navy operational deployments???
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Geopolitics / Taiwan – Taiwan : Melos or Pylos?
Naval War College Review – If taken to heart, lessons of the Peloponnesian War could help clarify thinkingóand dispel dangerous illusionsóin Taipei, Beijing, and Washington. The island of Melos learned the futility of unsupported resistance against overwhelming factors of force and geography; the Athenians and Spartans learned at Pylos expensive lessons about the difficulties of island campaigning and about the unpredictability of warfare as a policy.
Geopolitics / China – In China's Own Eyes
Foreign Affairs – The Man Who Changed China, a state-sanctioned portrait of Jiang Zemin, reflects the image that China’s new leaders want their people to see: pragmatic, moderate, and above politics. The vision, however, does not often match reality.
History – Raeder versus Wegener
Naval War College Review – German naval thought between the world wars was defined by a dispute between two distinguished officers: one who critiqued German naval performance in the conflict just ended, the other obliged to meet the very different realities of the war to come. Neither was wholly wrong or entirely correct; the disagreement produced concepts that mark naval doctrine today.
US Navy – Florida Pilots 'Counseled' for Rescues
Associated Press – A look at how initiative is reward in the US Navy today???
Update: Here is the original article from the New York Times – Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
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US Navy – Controlling the Command
Sea Power – A deployable joint command and control center steps from Navy labs toward fighting forces in a major test by Southern Command.
US Navy – Comfort upgrades to 250 beds, but mission is still unclear
Marine Corps Times – The hospital ship USNS Comfort is about to arrive off of the Gulf Coast.
Fox News – USNS Comfort May Serve As Respite for Responders.
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US Navy – Worn soldiers, storm victims grateful for Navy ship's comforts
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the USS Iwo Jima, off the Gulf Coast.
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US Marines – Getting Swept
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind criticize the use of sweep tactics by Marines in Iraq.
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Taiwanese Navy – Turnabout in Taipei
Sea Power – As China bolsters its forces, Taiwan reduces conscription and adopts an attitude on defense preparedness that can only be described as blasÈ.
Russian Navy – New Navy Chief Vows to Boost Effort
St. Petersburg Times – Russiaís new naval chief vowed on Monday to boost discipline and provide better leadership in the accident-prone navy, a day after his appointment by President Vladimir Putin.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Some Responses
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind shares some of the feedback he has gotten regarding his idea of a national militia being the best response to the Fourth Generation Threat.
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US Navy – Squadrons to the rescue
Pensacola News Journal – What the USS Bataan’s helicopters were doing on Saturday.
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Russian Navy – Putin sacks head of Russian navy
BBC – Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked the head of the navy, Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, a month after a mini-submarine accident.
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US Coast Guard – Sentinel of the Atlantic
Sea Power – Vice Admiral Vivien Crea cranks up the drug busts as she juggles missions and resources.
US Navy – Crew of Navy ship ready to play larger role in relief effort
Chicago Tribune – A look at what life has been like aboard the USS Bataan this week, and how much more it could have contributed to the relief effort in New Orleans. As it has literally steamed in circles this week in the Gulf of Mexico, it serves as a symbol of the US government’s disastrous response to the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina.
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