Marine Corps Gazette – For U.S. military personnel in receipt of orders to an overseas base, getting to know the culture, traditions and customs, and basic survival language skills are some of the obvious and fun things to do. For those en route to bases on Okinawa, Japan, becoming familiar with the sensitivities and politics of local nationals toward those bases is becoming an increasingly important ingredient in the cocktail of do’s and don’ts. Knowing how Okinawans view U.S. military bases (the Uchinachu perspective), and the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance they support, is critical to understanding public reaction and attitudes toward base issues and enables military personnel to become better neighbors.
US Navy – Mother Ship
Sea Power – The J-UCAS may launch small, expendable unmanned aircraft for special missions, such as attacking, jamming or decoying enemy air defenses.
Spanish Navy – Spain and Russia to stage joint exercises
UPI – Spanish and Russian officials announced Tuesday that the two nations will have joint naval exercises next year.
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Royal Marines – The major from Swindon leading US marines in Iraq
Daily Telegraph – An officer from the Royal Marines has been put in charge of American troops to make use of the counter-insurgency expertise Britain gained in Northern Ireland.
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Geopolitics / Islam – A Crescent Over Europe?
Air Force – Demographic change could turn the heartland of Western culture into an Islamic redoubt.
US Navy – Wave of the Future?
Sea Power – Officials question whether rising budgets, expanding missions and growing demand for unmanned aerial vehicle programs can be sustained.
Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM 1-A, Fourth Generation War, Is Now Available
US Marines – New Defenses
Sea Power – The Marine Corps foresees a web of integrated air defenses to replace its stove-piped systems and protect expeditionary forces far inland.
Ground Warfare – How are the mighty fallen
The Economist – Russian conscription is one of Europe’s worst human-rights scandals. But the system is too lucrative for the top brass to scrap it.
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US Marines – Interview With the Commander of the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command
Sea Power – The Marines quickly adopt lessons and tactics from Iraq and Afghanistan to prepare them for combat
US Marines – Marines, Iraqi Forces Raid Insurgent Strongholds
Washington Post – U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers have launched an offensive against insurgents in Iraq’s western Anbar province, their sixth since the beginning of May, raiding suspected guerrilla strongholds outside Fallujah.
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Terrorism – Here's a challenge: link the al-Qaeda bombs to poverty and global warming
Daily Telegraph – Historian Niall Ferguson nicely maps out the connections between terrorism, aid to Africa, global warming, and this week’s G8 Summit.
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Terrorism – In Gitmo
New Yorker – A look at the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo.
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Disarmament – If the Nuclear Taboo Gets Broken
Naval War College Review – Another use of nuclear weapons, for the first time since Nagasaki, is far from inevitable, but giving advance thought to the ways it could happen and to the policies that would be appropriate in response may be essential to heading it off.
Terrorism – Attacks Bear Earmarks Of Evolving Al Qaeda
Washington Post – A look at what Al Qaeda is morphing into, and how that new form relates to yesterdays terror attacks in London.
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US Marines – Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane
Wired – 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true.
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History – The Harrowing Origins of 'Raiders from the Deep'
Sea Power – The early days of Marine Force Reconnaissance.
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Pakistani Navy – Pakistan to get Chinese frigates by 2013
Pakistan Times – China will provide four F-22P advanced quality frigates to Pakistan by 2013, meeting its defence requirement. Of these, three will be manufactured in China, while one frigate will be built in Pakistan.
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US Marines – An Interview With the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps
Leatherneck – As the war on terror continues, the Commandant’s proud message is that the Marines are doing an “unbelievable job.”
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US Marines – A Vehicle That Does It All
Sea Power – As the Iraq War exposes inadequacies, Marine Corps officials ponder the serviceís future tactical wheeled vehicle needs
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Doing it Right
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind shows how the US is waging Fourth Generation Warfare successfully.
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US Marines – I'm Not Going to Come Home': One Marine's Third Iraq Tour
Washington Post – A look at the story of one Marine who was killed while on his third tour in Iraq.
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Transformation – Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change to Deter Terror
New York Times – The Pentagon’s most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.
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Port Security – 121,000 Tracks
Sea Power – 121,000 merchant vessels worldwide. Nine million cargo containers entering U.S. ports annually. U.S. Navy and government officials fear seagoing cargo vessels will make a perfect platform for another terrorist attack against the United States. As a preventative measure, they want to identify and track all merchant ships with the precision characteristic of the Navyís monitoring of Soviet submarines during the Cold War.
Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM-1A Fourth Generation War
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind posts the first draft of his Field Manual of Fourth Generation Warfare (Microsoft Word format).
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