Virginian Pilot – The Navy has proposed building a 1,600-foot, two-tiered pier for its aircraft carriers, advancing a double-decker design it first built for smaller ships about four years ago at the Norfolk Naval Station.
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Editorial Note – Archive from July 2004 – December 2004 Now Available
US Navy – US Sends Hospital Ship to Treat Tsunami Victims
Voice of America – The U.S. military has dispatched the Navy hospital ship Mercy to the tsunami region in Southeast Asia, and is prepared to also send modular hospitals by air that could arrive within hours.
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US Marines – Diverted Marines Happy to Help in Asia
Associated Press – The Bonhomme Richard, with 1,300 Marines aboard, and the smaller USS Duluth are joining the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its battle group in the relief effort for the northwestern Sumatra province of Aceh, where as many as 100,000 people are believed to have been killed by the Dec. 26 catastrophe. Another ship, the USS Rushmore, was also on its way.
More from the Associated Press – Pentagon Spending $6M a Day on Asia Relief
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US Navy – Navy looks to consolidate its operations
Virginian Pilot – The Navy will enter a new round of military base closings this spring looking for ways to consolidate its operations and co-locate more facilities with the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, the service’s top admiral asserted Tuesday.
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US Navy – Pentagon sees need for more tsunami help
Associated Press – The latest from the Indian Ocean.
Aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard: Associated Press – US sends in marines to show how much it cares
Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln: Associated Press – Top Guns’ take rear seat to helicopter pilots and Christian Science Monitor – View from US chopper
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US Navy -Local Navy unit coordinates aid mission
Virginian Pilot – What the Navy Environmental Health Center is doing to aid the tsunami victims.
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US Navy – USNS Mercy Leaves for Southeast Asia
KFMB – USNS Mercy sails for the Indian Ocean.
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US Navy – Naval base is spared damage by tsunamis
Associated Press – Why Diego Garcia was spared by the tsunamis.
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Information Warfare – The War Inside the Arab Newsroom
New York Times Magazine – A fascinating look behind the scenes of the Al Arabiya news channel, and how it compares and contrasts to Al Jazeera.
“Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed is trying to turn Al Arabiya into a new kind of Arab news channel, with fewer hostage tapes and more moderate voices. But that’s hard to do when his employees aren’t sure they want to change, American troops occasionally arrest his reporters and his anchors get personalized death threats from Iraqi insurgents.”
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US Navy – Building a fleet for coastal rescue
Boston Globe – An interesting call for the creation of a new class of “littoral humanitarian assistance ships.”
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US Navy – U.S. helicopters speed aid to Indonesia
Associated Press – Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Associated Press – U.S. Helicopters Rescue Tsunami Survivors
Associated Press – U.S. Military Contributes to Tsunami Aid
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US Marines – Hurdles Impede Marines on Relief Mission
Associated Press – Neither Sri Lanka or Indonesia wishes for the US to land Marines on their soil to aid in relief efforts. Therefore the USS Bonhomme Richard has joined the USS Abraham Lincoln off of Sumatra. The USS Mount Rushmore will proceed to Sri Lanka on its own. The high speed transport WestPac Express is heading to the region. The hospital ship USNS Mercy is being considered for deployment.
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CNN – U.S. to double helicopter fleet
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Pakistani Navy – Two naval ships to assist relief work for Quake victims
Urban Pakistan – Pakistan is sending naval vessels to aid the tsunami victims of Sri Lanka.
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US Navy – U.S. military on relief mission
Associated Press – A summary of US aid to tsunami victims, to date.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – 4GW & Riddles of Culture
Defense and the National Interest – As T.X. Hammes argues in The Sling and the Stone, 4GW began to take shape in the 1920s, and its roots go back to the dawn of history. An explanation of why it is just now becoming the dominant form of warfare.
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Israeli Navy – Navy's plans to procure new vessels frozen
Jerusalem Post – Israel has frozen ambitious plans for the purchase of large vessels that would have turned the Israeli Navy from a coast guard into a strategic arm of the defense apparatus.
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US Navy – U.S. Begins Aid Delivery in Sumatra
Washington Post – Seahawk helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln have begun delivering aid to survivors in Indonesia.
More from the Associated Press who has a reporter aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Geopolitics / Russia – Look back at Weimar ñ and start to worry about Russia
Daily Telegraph – Niall Ferguson on how Vladimir Putin is fast becoming as big a threat to Western security as he is to Russian democracy.
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Geopolitics / Water – Where Oil and Water Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Parameters – How water will become a resource that will lead to conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.
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US Marines – Osprey's fate is in Marines' hands
Copley News Service – The latest in the saga of the MV-22 Osprey.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – An OODA Loop Writ Large – 4GW and the Iraq War
Defense and the National Interest – In a new briefing, three retired officers – each hailing from a different service – lay out a vision for how the U.S. military must reorient itself to help meet security and reconstruction objectives in Iraq.
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Miscellaneous – The End of War
Toronto Star – An interesting and optimistic article to end the year on. Military historian Gwynne Dyer writes that humanity’s task over the next few years is to transform the world of independent states into a genuine global village.
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US Navy – U.S. forces increase disaster aid to S. Asia disaster aid to S. Asia
Honolulu Star Bulletin – The ships from the Maritime Prepositioning Squadrons on Diego Garcia and Guam are being activated for use in the Indian Ocean disaster relief efforts.
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US Navy – Pentagon Said to Offer Cuts in the Billions
New York Times – The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy’s 12 aircraft carriers – the USS John F. Kennedy, buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps and delay the development of a costly Army combat system of high-tech arms as part of $60 billion in proposed cuts over the next six years, Congressional and military officials said Wednesday.
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