BBC – Japan’s navy is chasing an unidentified submarine which was spotted inside the country’s waters on Wednesday.
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US Marines – U.S. Tries To Corner Fallujah Insurgents
Washington Post – Eyewitness reports of the fighting in Fallujah.
More from the New York Times.
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US Navy – As Missile-Defense System Deploys, Some Eye Directed-Energy Options
Sea Power – Twenty-one years after President Ronald Reagan jarred the world with his notion of an omnibus $26 billion missile-defense program, the U.S. military services are deploying the first elements of a planned multilayered defense scheme intended to protect the United States, some allies and forces on the battlefield from missile attack.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Mystery sub sparks Japan alert
BBC – Japan’s navy went on alert on Wednesday after an unidentified submarine – possibly Chinese – was spotted inside the country’s waters.
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US Marines – 'Three quarters' of Falluja taken
BBC – The latest from Fallujah.
More from the Daily Telegraph and Washington Post.
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Geopolitics / Africa – Swamp of Terror in the Sahara
Air Force – Vast, trackless, and ungoverned, Africaís sprawling desert is now a magnet for terrorists.
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Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Exercise Displays Japan's Ambitions
Reuters – Japan’s navy was mobilized on Wednesday after an unidentified submarine was found in Japanese waters.
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South Korean Navy – Sea border breach irks South Korea
CNN – South Korea’s navy has sent three warning messages to North Korea after one of the North’s patrol boats briefly crossed a disputed maritime border, the South Korean military says.
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US Navy – Local jets are flying over Iraq at same pace as start of war
Virginian Pilot – Planes from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying combat missions over Iraq at the same pace as they did during the start of the war a year and a half ago.
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US Marines – U.S. Forces Battle Into Heart of Fallujah
Washington Post – The latest from Fallujah.
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US Navy – England Charts a Careful Course Through Political Fire
Sea Power – When the U.S. Navy had a fleet of 485 ships, it typically deployed 98 vessels. Today, it has less than 300 ships, but regularly deploys 92. “So we really have changed a lot,” said Navy Secretary Gordon R. England. “We’re doing much better with what we have. In fact, we surge now more than we ever did.”
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US Marines – US attacks Iraq rebel stronghold
BBC – The attack on Fallujah begins. More from their embedded correspondents.
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US Marines – Tensions Rise Across Ranks In Iraq As Troops Are Told To Gut It Out
Inside the Pentagon – As the battle for Fallujah begins, here is a fascinating, inside look at what is really going in regards to peace and stability operations, inside the rest of Iraq.
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Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Exercise Displays Japan's Ambitions
Washington Post – As salty winds gusted off Tokyo Bay, a crack unit of Japanese commandos ascended the starboard ladder of a ship in a simulated hunt for weapons of mass destruction. They secured and patted down the crew, then searched the docked vessel until they uncovered its hidden cargo — a mock stash of sarin gas.
Seeking a more assertive role on the world stage, the Japanese government is now in the midst of a campaign to win a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and transform its Self-Defense Forces into a full military.
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Canadian Navy – Sub crew to blame for lethal fire
Ottawa Citizen – The fire on board a Canadian submarine that killed one of its crew was a result of human error.
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US Navy – Proliferation Security Initiative Seen as Start to Curbing Trade in Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sea Power – While much of the public controversy related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has swirled around Iraq and the presidential debates, the United States and its allies appear to be slowly making headway with a lesser-known effort to track down nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Sixty countries have become supporters of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), an effort to stop shipments of WMD, their delivery systems and related materials worldwide.
US Marines – Tensions Rise Across Ranks In Iraq As Troops Are Told To Gut It Out
New York Times – Preparations continue for the assault on Fallujah.
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Geopolitics / Europe – The Trouble with Mixed Motives: Debating the Political, Legal, and Moral Dimensions of Intervention
Naval War College Review – The strains in the transatlantic relationship from disagreement about the authorization and justification for the Iraq war arise from failure of national governments to balance the moral, legal, and political elements of which motives in international politics are invariably a mixture. In the 1999 Kosovo intervention, all three imperatives were satisfied; how can such consensus be reached in the future?
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History – Italian Naval Massacre
Military History – During the March 28, 1941, Battle of Cape Matapan, British Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham decided once and for all who would be master of the Mediterranean.
US Marines – Air of Expectation Is Heavy as G.I.'s Itch to Prove Their Mettle in Falluja
New York Times – The Marines get ready to take Fallujah.
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US Marines – Ethics and Leadership
Marine Corps Gazette – Marine leaders often find themselves in situations that test their mettle in areas of integrity. Here the author provides some real-world examples of leadership breaches.
US Navy – Crew swaps could extend to Marine amphib groups
Virginian Pilot – The Navyís crew-swapping experiments aboard destroyers and smaller ships could be expanded to entire Marine Corps battalions and the amphibious ships on which they deploy, according to the first Marine general to command a traditionally Navy-run expeditionary strike group
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US Navy – Northrop Grumman Combat UAV is Set for Flight in 2007
Sea Power – Naval news from around the fleet.
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Russian Navy – Russian nuclear submarine fires ballistic missile
Xinhua – A nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet successfully fired a ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk.
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US Navy – Will Judgment Be a Casualty of NCW?
US Naval Institute Proceedings – Technology is a powerful enabler, but it threatens to compromise the decision-making prerogatives of the commander closest to the action with the best view to make decisive judgments.
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