Foreign Affairs – The Bush administration has waged an aggressive war against terrorists abroad, but it has neglected to protect the homeland, even though Americans in the United States are the ones most vulnerable to future attacks. The government must do more to safeguard critical U.S. infrastructure and mobilize the American public to help. For starters, it should create a semi-independent federal agency tapping into private resources that would develop and enforce security standards.
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Indian Navy – Russia denies nuke sub deal with India
United Press International – Russia denies it has leased an Akula-class nuclear powered submarine to India.
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Indian Navy – Navy desperate for more ships
Times of India – ???meanwhile India is desperate for more and newer ships???
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History – Abandoned Amtracs: Operation SUSSEX BAY, 28 Augustñ9 September 1968
Marine Corps Gazette – The author recounts a vehicle recovery operation in Go Noi Island, Guang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam.
US Navy – Shrinking Navy fleet triggers debate
Copley News Service – Is the US fleet too small?
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Military Sealift Command – MSC Transformation Strategies Serve as Model for Sea Power 21
Sea Power – How the Military Sealift Command is transforming itself.
US Navy – New submariners are the Navy's brew crew
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the US Navy’s newest submarine, the USS Virginia.
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US Marines – Marines vent anger, frustration as their comrades die
Associated Press – With the Marines on the Syrian border.
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Iraq – Faulty Intelligence Misled Troops at War's Start
New York Times – In Part 3 of “Catastrophic Success,” Michael Gordon shows how the U.S.-led occupation authority’s disbanding of the Iraqi Army over a year ago cast a shadow over the occupation.
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Wargaming – When War Games Meet Video Games
Wired – You’d hardly expect to find dozens of defense strategists setting aside two weeks at a time to play a video game. But then, Urban Resolve is no ordinary video game. Developed by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, or JFCom, a division of the Department of Defense, the $195,000 program is a combat simulation on a massive scale. It pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege, and it’s capable of modeling the behavior of the nearly 1 million entities — the soldiers, civilians, cars, tanks and so on — that might exist in such a conflict.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – 4GW, High Noon, And How Even I Get It Now.
Defense and the National Interest – A martial artist contemplates fourth generation warfare.
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Iraq – Faulty Intelligence Misled Troops at War's Start
New York Times – In the second article in his series “Catastrophic Success,” Michael Gordon show how much of the information provided by the C.I.A. to those prosecuting the war and planning the occupation proved wrong.
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US Navy – Navy makes a clothes call
US Navy – The Navy is testing new uniforms for its sailors.
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US Navy – Ship System Innovations Will Have Lasting Impact on Navy's Future
Sea Power – The U.S. Navyís transformation in the post-Cold War era has brought an array of high-tech innovations that captured the publicís imagination. As the nation struck back at al-Qaeda or fought to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders, the public spotlight has focused on the Navyís futuristic unmanned vehicles, super-automated mission-control centers and precision munitions. But more mundane innovations in ships systems and operations also will have a lasting, though less dramatic, impact on the Navy of the 21st century.
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Iraq – Catastrophic Success – The Strategy to Secure Iraq Did Not Foresee a 2nd War
New York Times – Michael Gordon describes how many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration’s miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.
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Iraq – Drawing From Its Past Wars, Britain Takes a Tempered Approach to Iraqi Insurgency
New York Times – The perspective of Empire applied to Iraq – the British Army’s view of the current situation on the ground in Iraq.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Keeping Our SA Up
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind reminds all Fourth Generationists to follow the old fighter pilot rule: keep your situational awareness up. If you donít, if you allow yourself to focus on just one aspect of the Fourth Generation threat, youíre gonna get hosed.
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Terrorism – Bin Laden bought ship ëfor terror'
The Times – Al Qaeda continues to acquire a fleet.
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US Navy – As Underwater Threat Re-emerges, Navy Renews Emphasis on ASW
Sea Power – After a decade in the shadows, the Navy has put antisubmarine warfare (ASW) back at the top of its warfighting priorities, injecting new leadership and increased funding into the fight against a re-emerging undersea threat.
Iraq – Iraq's Barbed Realities
Washington Post – An interesting look at what went wrong in Fallujah, from the Washington Post’s recently returned chief correspondent in Iraq, who was in Iraq for the last 2 years.
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Geopolitcs / Iraq – Iraq's Kurds and Turkey: Challenges for US Policy
Parameters – A look at the Kurds role in the future of Iraq.
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Taiwanese Navy – U.S. to build 8 subs in deal with Taiwan
Taipei Times – Should Taiwan buy used Sauro-class submarines from Italy, rather than buying new submarines from the US?
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US Navy – New chief takes control of Navy submarine fleet
Virginian Pilot – The navy has a new top submarine commander.
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History – Shadow Warrior: OSS Marine Operational Group, Union II
Leatherneck – Sixty years ago Jack Risler was among a select group of Marine operators in “the shadowy world of espionage, sabotage and guerrilla warfare.”
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Russian Navy – Russia to join NATO patrols in Mediterranean
Associated Press – Russia agreed Thursday to send warships to help NATO’s naval patrols monitoring suspicious vessels in the Mediterranean as part of a drive for closer counterterrorism co-operation between Moscow and the western alliance.
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