Royal Marines – Royal Marines are heading up the peacekeeping force in Kabul.
Royal Navy – Anti-terrorist police are searching a cargo ship from Mauritius which they intercepted in the English Channel on Friday morning which is suspected of carrying terrorist material.
Russian Navy – A new class of Russian corvette was laid down.
US Navy – A tanker suspected by the US Navy of smuggling oil for Iraq is said to be innocent by the Iranians.
US Coast Guard – Ice breaking on the Great Lakes.
US Navy – a Pan-American naval task force has been proposed to fight drug smuggling.
US Navy – Carrier battlegroups will aim to be certified earlier in their training cycle for overseas deployments so they can be made available when needed.
Chinese Navy – Strategies for an invasion of Taiwan.
US Navy – Norman Friedman on what the US Navy can do about asymetrical warfare.
Canadian Navy – The Canadian Navy is contributing to the blockade off Pakistan that is searching for al Qaeda fighters that are attempting to flee by the sea.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, her crew is learning to become proficient with small arms.
Background – Lessons Learned – The BBC’s defense correspondent on what lessons have been learned to date in this information-centered war.
US Marines – What life is like for a new recruit at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island.
French Navy – The French military has been crippled by decreased defense spending, reorganizations, and poor administration. The most visible example of this is the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle which has been riddled with defects.
US Navy – The Area Missile Defense System has been canceled due to cost overruns.
US Navy – The US Navy will probably be moving to deployments lasting longer than 6 months during the war on terrorism.
Background – Targeting – William Arkin shows how targeting is a very complex issue, and the JAG lawyers are not solely at fault when a potentially lucrative target is passed over as being too politically risky to attack.
US Marines – The US Marines will begin to move their base from Camp Rhino to the Kandahar airport.
Indian Navy – The Indian Navy recent held joint exercises with the US Navy.
Royal Australian Navy – The Australian Navy turned back another ship carrying illegal immigrants.
Background – Strategy – William Arkin on how the strategy the US is using to hunt down the Al Qaeda leadership – leaving the fighting to Afghan proxies – may lessen the chances of actually finding those leaders.
US Navy – The USS John F Kennedy battlegroup will deploy 2 months early to the Persian Gulf; in the meantime her commander was relieved due to the ship failing an operational readiness inspection. But is he being made a scapegoat for a system that has chronically underfunded maintenance for years?
US Marines – On the ground with the Marines at Camp Rhino.
US Navy – The US Navy has several ships in the Mediterranean under surveillance that are suspected of aiding terrorist causes.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, aircrews are setting operational records.
US Marines – The US Marines have moved into the Kandahar airport.
Background – Close Air Support – Jim Dunnigan on the historical evolution of close air support, and how it has been revolutionized in Afghanistan.
US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk battlegroup is returning to its homeport in Japan.
US Navy – The US Navy continues to actively board and search ships suspected of aiding al-Qaeda’s cause.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the amount of ordinance being delivered by aircraft is falling off. Meanwhile the Italian aircraft carrier Guiseppe Garibaldi is working up to integrate itself into the task force.
US Navy – The USS Russell rescued crewman from a B-1 bomber who had to eject from the disabled aircraft 60 miles north of Diego Garcia.
US Navy – How to do your holiday shopping from a combat zone, aboard the USS Thedore Roosevelt.
US Navy – An overview of the Maritime Prepositioning Force.
Royal Navy – Royal Navy ships have joined the patrol off Pakistan’s coast to ensure that al Qaida members do not flee Afghanistan and Pakistan by the sea.
US Marines – More on the Marine patrols around Kandahar.
US Navy – The last cruise of the Spruance-class destroyer USS Ray.
Background – Special Forces – With the US Army special forces on the ground in Afghanistan, to see how they have been functioning in this conflict.
US Marines – US Marines are patrolling the roads around Kandahar, searching for fleeing members of al-Qaida.
US Navy – An excerpt from a book by the pilot of the EP-3 downed earlier this year off China.
Background – Intelligence – A summary of the intelligence community’s contributions and successes in the war so far.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, whose pilots are now plinking caves.
US Marines – On the ground with the US Marines at and around Camp Rhino.
US Marines – Why the US Marines are the United States leaders in expeditionary warfare, and why the US Army is not.
Background – William Arkin on how destroying the cave complexes is turning out to be easier than earlier thought.
Background – Secretary of Defense Rumsfield gives his opinion of the war to date in an interview with Thomas Ricks.
US Marines – US Marines see action on the ground in Afghanistan for the first time
US Navy – Viecques may remain open as a training range indefinitely.
US Navy – China has begun harrassing US ELINT flights off China again.
Background – Afghanistan – Sir John Keegan with an analysis of the campaign so far and how far it has to go.
US Marines – With the Marines on the ground in Afghanistan.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, with her young Sailors.
Canadian Navy – HMCS Toronto deploys to NATO’s Standing Naval Force Atlantic in the Mediterranean. It replaces HMCS Halifax, which was sent to the Arabian Sea to join the fight against terrorism.
Background – Special Forces – Sir John Keegan on the historical importance of special forces.
US Marines – US Marines are engaging in more aggressive patroling around their airfield base in Afghanistan.
US Navy – The Bon Homme Richard amphibious ready ground carrying the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit has set sail for the Arabian Sea.
US Navy – The US is set to embark on a closer military relationship with India, as more US Navy ships make port calls in India.
Background – Taliban military – James F. Dunnigan debunks myths about the Taliban military machine.
US Marines – The Australian SAS is working out of the US Marine base in Afghanistan.
Russian Navy – More on the commissioning of the nuclear attack submarine Gepard.
French Navy – The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has set sail for the Arabian Sea.
US Navy – A description of the amphibious exercise Kernal Blitz 01 held earlier this year and its focus on network centric warfare.
Russian Navy – The Russian Navy will commission the nuclear attack submarine Gepard.
US Navy – As the F-14’s days in the fleet are numbered, its testing days at Pax River come to an end.
US Marines – On the ground, hygiene is everything???
Background – Strategy – William Arkin on how it might not be all that difficult to topple Saddam Hussein.
US Marines – With the US Marines in Afghanistan, liaison troops from the UK, Australia and Germany are also at the base.
US Navy – Thomas Ricks on how the new ability to hit emerging targets from the air holds lessons for the future of USAF and US Navy aviation.
Royal Malaysian Navy – The Royal Malaysian Navy is beefing up patrols in Sabah waters in order to increase security on Malaysia’s eastern border with the Philippines.
US Navy – What the future holds for naval gun fire support for Marines.
US Navy – The Newport News shipyard has been acquired by Northrup Grumman.
US Coast Guard – Aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Forward in Chesapeake Bay.
Russian Navy – The blame for the Kursk disaster slowly begins to be assigned.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Theordore Roosevelt, some Sailors and Marines are pursing college course work.
US Marines – On the ground with the US Marines in Afghanistan at Forward Operating Base Rhino.
Canadian Navy – Canadian ships are now part of the US Navy battlegroups in the Arabian Sea.
Indonesian Navy – The CINCPACLFT says that Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore need to do more to combat the piracy in their territorial waters.
Background – Strategy – Former US Navy Secretary James Webb on what we can learn from the British and Soviet empires as we devise new doctrines for the new threats we face.
German Navy – The German Navy is spending more of its time in the Mediterranean.
US Marines – Who has the better assault rifle – the US Marines or the Taliban?
US Navy – CINCLANT says the utility of aircraft carriers should not be doubted anymore.
US Marines – US Marines are patrolling outside Kandahar.
Please note: – Updating of NOSI may be a bit erratic over the next few days???
US Marines – US Marine forces are already seeing combat in Afghanistan.
French Navy – The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will join the US task force in the Arabian Sea in December.
US Navy – The US Navy may mothball all its Spruance-class destroyers years ahead of schedule to save money that can be spent on upgrading aviation assets; this will exacerbate the shortage of ships available for operations.
US Coast Guard – An essay on why homeland security is an important mission and why the US Coast Guard is the service to do it.
US Marines – US Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Peleliu amphibious ready ground, and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Bataan amphibious ready group have landed outside Kandahar in order to join US and UK special forces in the hunt for Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – More Japanese ships have deployed to the Arabian Sea.
Canadian Navy – The Canadian Navy considers acquiring its own organic sealift capability.
Royal Marines – Why the Royal Marines’ SBS unit is going nowhere at Bagram airfield near Kabul.
Background – Strategy – The next countries targeted in the war against terrorism will be Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
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