CNN – The 1st and 2nd Marine Expeditionary Forces are to be sent to the Gulf Coast.
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Iraq – Occupational Hazards
Foreign Affairs – Two postmortems on the Iraq occupation lambaste Washington for handling the job poorly. But doing much better would be so difficult that perhaps the bar should be raised for going to war in the first place.
US Navy – Carrier Roosevelt deploys for Persian Gulf
Virginian Pilot – The USS Theodore Roosevelt deploys to the Persian Gulf which will be the last cruise of the F-14 Tomcat.
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US Coast Guard – Desperate Victims Turning Combative
Washington Post – A first hand look at the Coast Guard’s efforts in rescuing individiuals in the Gulf Coast.
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Wargaming – Cybertroops Keep War Games Real
New Map Game – An extensive summary (90 pages) of Thomas P.M. Barnett’s New Map Game wargame that occured earlier this year.
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History – Cold War Strategic ASW
Undersea Warfare – Soviet strategic missile submarines were the greatest naval threat to the United States during the Cold War. Accordingly, strategic antisubmarine warfare (ASW) became a major role of the U.S. Navy, especially the attack submarines. This excerpt from Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines by Normal Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore briefly describes the development of strategic ASW.
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US Navy – Carrier Truman joins hurricane relief effort
Virginian Pilot – The USS Harry S. Truman heads to the Gulf Coast, to serve as a helicopter carrier.
Associated Press – More Navy Ships Headed to the Gulf Coast and Pentagon Resources Pouring Into Gulf Area.
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Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Tokyo eyes MSDF exit at expiry of Indian Ocean duty
Japan Times – Japan may withdraw the Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels providing logistic support in the Indian Ocean for naval vessels involved in the U.S.-led antiterror campaign in and around Afghanistan when the mission expires November 1.
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US Navy – USS Bataan
US Navy – Navy ships depart Hampton Roads for Gulf Coast
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima, the USS Tortuga, the USS Shreveport and the USS Grapple head towards the Gulf Coast.
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Royal Navy – Carrier project will go ahead ñ but at a price
The Herald – The latest on the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier project.
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Canadian Navy – Canada sends navy to Arctic north
BBC – Canada is sending its navy back to the far northern Arctic port of Churchill after a 30-year absence.
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US Navy – Pentagon mobilizing relief efforts
CNN – The Pentagon was mobilizing troops and resources Tuesday as part of a massive relief effort in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina???The USS Bataan is in action, and other amphibious ships and the hospital ship USNS Comfort are on their way???
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US Navy – Local Navy ships ready to provide aid to Katrina victims
Virginian Pilot – The Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship Bataan, already in the Gulf of Mexico for training, may be called on to provide humanitarian aid to refuges of Hurricane Katrinaís destruction.
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US Navy – US and Japan plan floating runway
The Guardian – Japan and the US are planning to build a giant floating runway off the coast of western Japan in a bid to reduce noise pollution by US military aircraft.
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US Navy – The Submarine as a Case Study in Transformation: Implications for Future Investment
Naval War College Review – Many who were not submariners thought that the U.S. submarine force had lost its raison d’Ítre when the Cold War ended, which was not the case. The following will show, therefore, that there has always been a next “most important mission” for these warships.
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Chinese Navy – Why does China need that navy?
Washinton Times – The new commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Adm. Gary Roughhead, an interested onlooker of the joint Chinese-Russian military maneuvers during the past eight days, has posed a critical question about the rapidly modernizing Chinese navy: “What do [the Chinese] see as the intended use of that navy? “
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History – Between Fleet Scouts & Commerce Raiders
Undersea Warfare – A look at the operational level of the submarine campaigns waged by both Germany and the United States in World War II.
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US Navy – New Mine Countermeasure System Designs Are Hitting the Water
Sea Power – Naval news from around the industry.
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Wargaming – Cybertroops Keep War Games Real
Wired – The Pentagon marshals thousands of computer-generated soldiers, tanks, ships and networked flight simulators to make large-scale training exercises more realistic than ever before.
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Operations Other Than War – A Soldier's Story
Wall Street Journal – Historian Michael Oren gives an insightful, inside view of Israel’s successful operation other than war that occured last week – the removal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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Ground Warfare – VR Goggles Heal Scars of War
Wired – Another look at how the videogame Full Spectrum Warrior is being used to treat combat stress.
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Ground Warfare – The Army must not be a scapegoat for our society
Daily Telegraph – Historian Max Hastings on how the rules of conduct in war have changed since World War II???
For more background on this essay read: Daily Telegraph – Army risks losing its reputation, warns general.
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US Navy – Balancing Act
Sea Power – An interview with Rear Admiral Michael L. Holmes, Commander, Patrol & Reconnaissance Group who is juggling new missions and demands with smaller, more dispersed maritime patrol and reconnaissance forces.
US Marines – A Quick Look at Weapons Failures
Marine Corps Gazette – The author provides a no-nonsense primer on how to avoid negligent discharges.
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