Sea Power – The U.S. Navyís Sea Swap experiment was ìclearly a success,î according to a new report about the program, with the ships involved maintaining a high level of readiness during the roughly 18-month study period. But the same report questions whether the savings offered by the swaps ó in funding and operations ó are worth the burden the program places on sailors in terms of work and quality of life.
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US Navy – Report questions timetable for Navy's new ship
Virginian Pilot – The Navy may be moving too quickly in the development of the next-generation DDX destroyer, relying on technologies that have yet to be fully proven, Congressional investigators warned Friday.
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Geopolitics / North Korea – The Fire Last Time
Foreign Affairs – An insiders’ view of the deal struck with North Korea in 1994 and a core lesson for the Bush administration: there’s no substitute for negotiation.
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History – Tonkin Gulf Reappraisal: 40 Years Later
MHQ – Forty years after North Vietnamese patrol boats reportedly attacked U.S. destroyers, the sequence of events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident is finally coming into clearer focus.
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US Navy – Deployment for three Norfolk-based ships cancelled
Virginian Pilot – The new Fleet Response Plan in action. In July, some 2,000 sailors thought they were heading overseas in August. In August , they heard they were leaving in September. Now theyíve been told there are no plans to go at all.
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy frigate comes calling
Express News Service – HMS Cumberland will exercise with the Indian Navy later this month.
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Transformation – Shift From Traditional War Seen at Pentagon
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how top Pentagon officials are considering a new, long-term strategy that shifts spending and resources away from large-scale warfare to build more agile, specialized forces for fighting guerrilla wars, confronting terrorism and handling less conventional threats, officials said yesterday.
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Iraq – Is Oil America's Achilles' Heel in Iraq????
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting article in which the author argues that the Iraqi insurgents are deliberately targeting Iraq’s oil infrastructure because they think it is the United States’ key vulnerabilityówhich it would be, if the United States’ goal is really to control the oil.
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Iraq – The Desert Fox
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on how Muqtada al-Sadr won, even though he lost.
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Information Warfare – Thinking About Deception
Defense and the National Interest – This brief paper discusses the most often asked questions about military deception: What is it?
Why do it? How do you measure its impact, or, how do you calculate its contribution to winning? Can you rely on it?
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Canadian Navy – Canada Reinforces Its Disputed Claims in the Arctic
New York Times – Canada is exercising this year in the Arctic, to enforce its sovereignty claims there.
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US Marines – In Western Iraq, Fundamentalists Hold U.S. at Bay
New York Times – A look at what the area around Fallujah is currently like for the US Marines stationed there.
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US Navy – Sonar Used Before Whales Hit Shore
Washington Post – The Navy has acknowledged that vessels on maneuver off Hawaii last month used their sonar periodically in the 20 hours before a large pod of melon-headed whales unexpectedly came to shore in the area. The acknowledgement added to an already contentious debate over whether the sound from sonar has been causing marine mammals to strand.
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US Marines – Logistics Modernization: A Marine Corps Warfighting Imperative
Marine Corps Gazette – The program’s importance is either above or at least on the same level with weapons systems we have coming down the road . . . MVñ22, Joint Strike Fighter, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. . . .
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US Marines – Heavy armor proved its worth to American forces in Najaf battles
New York Times – A look at the different roles played by the Army and Marines in the battle for Najaf.
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US Marines – Marine Corps Fratricide Reduction Efforts
Marine Corps Gazette – As the column of Marines advanced north to secure a strategic Euphrates River bridge just south of the city of An Nasiriyah they observed Iraqi soldiers along the roadside who appeared to be surrendering. Upon approaching them, the Iraqis opened fire with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. The Marines took cover in and around their assault amphibious vehicles and began to return fire, and then, in an incident tragically reminiscent of an engagement that occurred 12 years earlier during Operation Desert Storm, a U.S. Air Force Añ10 Thunderbolt strafed the columnódestroying one of the vehicles and killing as many as nine Marines.
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Geopolitics / Sudan – Dying in Darfur
The New Yorker – A look at the civil war in Sudan.
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Spanish Navy – Spain 'secretly backed coup by sending warships'
The Times – There was growing speculation in Madrid last night that the centre-right Government of JosÈ MarÌa Aznar, defeated by the socialists in elections in March, supported secret plans to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony. The Spanish had sent a naval task force to aid the coup.
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US Navy – Kennedy skipper loses job in wake of collision with Iraqi boat
Virginian Pilot – The captain of the carrier John F. Kennedy is to be relieved of his command today following an investigation into the shipís collision with a small Iraqi boat in the Persian Gulf.
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Iraq – An Accord for Now, But Risks Ahead
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks with the Pentagon’s analysis of the sitution in Najaf, now that the fighting is over.
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Miscellaneous – Show Me in 'Merica
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks profiles Representative Ike Skelton, the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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Iraq – Top Brass Won't Be Charged Over Abuse
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks looks at the dramatic leadership failures revealed by two investigations into the abuse of Iraqi detainees.
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Iraq – In Iraq's Guerrilla War, Army Intelligence Faces a Tough Job
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks looks at how the latest Pentagon report on the detainee abuse scandal focuses on the role played by military intelligence, which arguably is the branch of the Army most challenged by the insurgency in Iraq.
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US Navy – US goes back to basics in its war on terrorism
Daily Telegraph – With the crew of Mobile Security Force Squadron Two.
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US Coast Guard – Collins Strikes Balance Between Present, Future Resources
Sea Power – An interview with the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Thomas J. Collins.
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