Sea Power – While the public spotlight in Washington, D.C., is focused on defense numbers, as usual, relatively scant attention is being given to a nascent personnel management strategy that foretells of fundamental change to the Navy and its people, possibly to include several revolutionary shifts in the serviceís recruitment and staffing practices.
Geopolitics – Mapping the Global Future
National Intelligence Council – An attempt to define what the global landscape will look like in 2020.
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US Marines – The Marine Conscientious Objection Process: Advice for Investigators and Commanders
Marine Corps Gazette – Conscientious Objection. A firm, fixed, and sincere objection to participation in war in any form or the bearing of arms, by reason of religious, moral or ethical training, and belief.
Canadian Navy – Canadian navy far from ship-shape, committee hears
Canadian Press – Canada’s navy is operating at tens of millions of dollars in the red and has been for years, inhibiting its role off Canada’s coasts and elsewhere, its chief told a Senate committee on Monday.
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US Navy – Shipbuilding: An Uncertain Future
Sea Power – A roundtable discussion on the future of the US shipbuilding industry.
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Royal Navy – We haven't got enough ships to fight another Falklands War, says the head of the Navy
Daily Telegraph – Cuts to the Royal Navy’s fleet of warships have left it too weak to fight another Falklands War, according to the service’s most senior officer.
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Iraq – Terror's New Frontier
New York Post – Ralph Peters on how the city of Mosul is the key to defeating the Iraqi insurgency.
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US Marines – Fast-Firing Turret Aims to Counter RPGs
Sea Power – Armament makers in the United States are developing ways to counter a ubiquitous force-protection threat to U.S ground forces: rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
Intelligence – U.S. Uses Drones to Probe Iran For Arms
Washington Post – The U.S. has been flying surveillance drones over Iran for nearly a year to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect weaknesses in air defenses.
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US Marines – The Truth About War
New York Post – Ralph Peters puts into perspective the comments made last week by Marine General Jim Mattis, about war.
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Geopolitics / Conscription – From Conscription to Voluteers: NATO's Transitions to All-Volunteer Forces
Naval War College Review – Like the United States after the Vietnam War, European militaries are seeking creative solutions to recruit, retain, and motivate the high-quality volunteers they need. But the demographic, economic, social, and labor environments within which the militaries compete for employees are different, and Europe is likely to find the task more difficult, costly, and lengthy than did the United States.
US Navy – Senator Warner opens battle to maintain Norfolk fleet
Virginian Pilot – The Bush administration could compromise the integrity of its military base closure process if it pursues a Navy plan to explore transferring a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier to Florida.
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Geopolitics / Japan – Japan-China tensions rise over tiny islands
Christian Science Monitor – In a sign of deepening popular and political animosity between China and Japan, Tokyo took formal possession this week of a tiny archipelago in the Pacific waters south of Japan. In the early morning of Feb. 9, Tokyo informed Beijing’s embassy here that the Senkaku Islands would be administered by the Japanese coast guard. The unexpectedly bold action by Tokyo received little attention here. But it is seen as a “serious chess move,” says one diplomat, in a region where power relations are being redefined, and where tensions over energy, borders, military buildups, and ethnic rivalries are palpable.
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History – "Sudden Death Echo"
Leatherneck – It was early in the Vietnam War, a time when Marines still wore sateen utilities, carried wooden-stocked M14 rifles and fought an enemy that could disappear into thin air and re-emerge with deadly consequences.
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Royal Navy – Spain seeks agreement with UK over Gibraltar subs
Reuters – Spain will ask Britain to set out clear guidelines on repairing nuclear submarines in Gibraltar at talks today, days after the docking of a nuclear submarine in the British colony sparked controversy in Spain.
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Royal Navy – VT Shipbuilding Gains OPV (H) Nod
Sea Power – International naval news from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Bulgaria.
Editorial Note – Reading List / Curriculum Updated
NOSI’s Reading List / Curriculum has been updated to include articles through February 7, 2005.
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Royal Navy – Navy releases tsunami images
BBC – UK scientists have released images of the ocean floor near the epicentre of December’s giant Asian earthquake. The images were obtained by the Royal Navy’s hydrographic survey ship HMS Scott.
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US Navy – Shipbuilders criticize budget proposal
Virginian Pilot – President Bush’s 2006 defense budget proposal is the worst in memory for shipbuilders, with low production rates and an apparent lack of planning that endangers shipyards and their suppliers, the industry’s top lobbyist said Tuesday.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – FMFM 1-A
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind gives a progress report on the Field Manual he is writing on Fourth Generation Warfare.
Taiwanese Navy – New navy chief faces criticism
Taipei Times – The new leader of Taiwan’s navy is???a Marine???
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US Navy – What Exactly Is Under the Sea?
Wired – New strategies for mapping the ocean floor.
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Piracy – Malacca Strait pirates dealt blow by Asian tsunami
Reuters – Deadly bands of pirates robbing ships and kidnapping crews in the Malacca Strait may have been dealt a body blow by the tsunami that tore through the Indian Ocean last month, an anti-piracy watchdog said.
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US Navy – A new take on the warship
San Diego Union Tribune – A look at the Sea Fighter, a 262-foot-long catamaran designed to operate in shallow coastal waters. This prototype tranformational warship was developed for the Navy’s Office of Naval Research.
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US Navy – Clark, chief of naval operations, confirms retirement
Virginian Pilot – Admiral Vern Clark, the Navy’s top officer, said today he will retire this summer after five years as chief of naval operations – the second-longest tenure in the history of the Navy.
More from Reuters – US Navy facing budget, leadership challenges.
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