Sea Power – A single Ohio-class guided-missile submarine (SSGN) will be armed with 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles. That is more cruise missiles than are now carried by an entire carrier strike group, and almost 20 percent of the 800 Tomahawks fired by a cadre of coalition submarines and surface ships during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Navy is obtaining four SSGNs, a step that will substantially increase the offensive power of the fleet.
US Navy – Whales' Plight Revives Sonar Theory
Washington Post – Another near-stranding of whales on a beach in Hawaii during a US Navy exercise. Is there a link between the sonar being used and the near-stranding?
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Iraq – Why Iraq Will End as Vietnam Did
Defense and the National Interest – Martin van Creveld documents Moshe Dayan’s visit to Vietnam in the 1960’s and draws interesting parallels to the situation in Iraq today.
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US Marines – Marines, families endure horror of bloody firefight
True Ozarks News Leader – An indepth look at one firefight in Iraq.
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Intelligence – Berlin to Baghdad, the Pitfalls of Hiring Enemy Intelligence
Foreign Affairs – Washington wants to hire ex-Baathists to help rebuild Iraq. The CIA’s experience using ex-Nazis to run West Germany’s intelligence service should give it pause.
Washington wants to hire ex-Baathists to help rebuild Iraq. The CIA’s experience using ex-Nazis to run West Germany’s intelligence service should give it pause.
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History – Into the Lion's Den
Naval History – Commander Seventh Fleet recounts a ìdicey nightî in the Vietnam War.
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Geopolitics / Iran – October Suprise?
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind asks if there will be a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nascent nuclear capabilities before the US presidential election.
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Royal Navy – Imitate the Army – don't butcher it
Daily Telegraph – John Keegan on why the British military force size should be preserved, not cut.
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US Navy – Admiral: Huge exercise is not a message
Associated Press – The United States’ largest naval exercise in decades – Summer Pulse ’04, involving the deployment around the globe of seven of the Navy’s 12 carrier battle groups, is not designed to send political signals to potential enemies, a senior Navy officer said Thursday.
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US Navy – 'Silent Hammer' Will Test SSGN as Clandestine Sea Base
Sea Power – The Navy will conduct a critical sea trial, called ìSilent Hammer,î scheduled for this fall off the coast of San Diego, to evaluate the capability improvements offered by a clandestine sea base of networked undersea, surface, air and ground forces in a coordinated operation.
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Chinese Navy – China tests 'D-Day invasion' of Taiwan
The Times – Chinese soldiers will for the first time rehearse a D-Day-style invasion of Taiwan on a densely populated island off the mainland coast this month.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Plan of Attack
The Atlantic – The United States is not just facing an insurgency in Iraqóit’s facing “netwar,” the newest kind.
US Navy – In global exercise, Navy tests out flexible new military plan
Associated Press – Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, in the Mediterranean Sea.
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US Navy – Lockheed Martin Explores JASSM Vertical-Launch Potential
Sea Power – As the air-launched AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) enters full-rate production, its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, is studying the potential of it being adapted to the vertical launching systems of Navy warships.
US Marines – The Re-Baathification of Falluja
New York Times Magazine – Another look at how the Marines have attempted to pacify Falluja.
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Geopolitics / Empire – The End of Power
Wall Street Journal – Niall Ferguson on how without American hegemony the world would likely return to the dark ages.
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Iraq – U.S. Army Changed by Iraq, but for Better or Worse?
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how fifteen months of combat in Iraq are leaving an imprint on the U.S. military. All the services are changing, but the Army especially is undergoing radical change as a result of the unexpectedly difficult occupation, in which it has suffered nearly 6,000 casualties.
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Fourth Generation War – The Canon, continued
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind lists the books to read to understand 4th Generation War – Part 2.
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US Marines – Marine Forces Reserve
Marine Corps Gazette – The Reserves are leveraging recent successes to shape the flexible, responsive Reserve Component needed for the global war on terrorism.
Iraq – Letter From Falluja – Home Rule
New Yorker – A fascinating look at what life is now like inside Falluja.
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Singaporean Navy – Stealthy, sleek and made in Singapore
Straits Times – The launch of the largest stealth and strike frigate to be built in Singapore – it is the second of six to be added to the navy fleet.
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Canadian Navy – The navy life: Excitement on the high seas
Kingston Whig Standard – Life aboard HMCS Kingston.
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US Marines – Returning Marines face new battle at home
San Diego Union Tribune – A look at how the Marines are practicing combat stress control to reduce the incidence of post traumatic stress disorder.
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US Navy – Enterprise surges through its deployment
Virginian Pilot – The carrier Enterprise, showing the flag in the North Atlantic for the first time since before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is halfway through an unexpected deployment designed to demonstrate the Navyís ability to rush its forces to sea.
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Iraq – Spillover
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the war on terrorism.
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