Monthly Archives:: February 2001

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US Navy – A brief log of the USS Abraham Lincoln battlegroup’s most recent cruise, recently completed. Seattle Post Intelligencer: The Abraham Lincoln comes home Seattle Post Intelligencer: It’s happy berthday for the carrier Lincoln Indian Navy – The Indian Navy continues to negotiate with Russia for the lease of a nuclear submarine. Rediff: India, [...]

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Indian Navy – India called for assistance in combating the growing problems of piracy, drug-trafficking and gun-running in the region’s troubled sea lanes. The President of India also stated that “The security of the seas was necessary for the independence and prosperity and security of nations as well as for world peace.” BBC: Call to [...]

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US Navy – A journalist reflects on the open access she experienced during a cruise on the Trident-class submarine USS Ohio??? MSNBC: Remembering a visit on board a sub US Navy – ???while a crewman claimed that civilians distracted him from doing his job plotting surface contacts on the USS Greenville??? BBC: Civilians ‘distracted’ sub [...]

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Royal Navy – The newest Trident ballistic missile submarine, HMS Vengeance, has become operational. BBC: New Trident submarine in service US Navy – Another essay on how the abbreviated defense review being undertaken by the Pentagon may have a far-reaching impact on all the armed services. Economist: New arms for a new world Canadian Navy [...]

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US Navy – The raid against Iraqi command and control centers is claimed to have been successful. Daily Telegraph (registration required): Bombs destroyed Iraqi command centre US Navy – The sunken Japanese fishing trawler has been found on the ocean floor; meanwhile a court of inquiry will be convened to investigate the incident. BBC: Top-level [...]

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US Navy – US and British aircraft have attacked Iraqi air defense command and control facilities. F-18′s from the USS Harry Truman participated in the raid. CNN: Pentagon: Strike in planning stages for ‘some time’ Washington Post: U.S., Britain Bomb 5 Iraqi Sites Russian Navy – Iran is concerned about the influence of Russian naval [...]

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US Military – Background – the Bush administration has asked one of the Pentagon’s most controversial thinkers, Andrew Marshall, to conduct a review of the US military and report back within weeks to provide a vision for the future. The report is expected to substantially influence future defense policy and is expected to be highly [...]

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US Navy – The USS Greeneville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine, sunk a Japanese fishing trawler off of Hawaii during an emergency surfacing exercise. Japan has asked for the trawler to be raised. This is not an isolated incident, fishing trawlers are sunk accidentally by submarines on a regular basis. BBC: Raise trawler from [...]

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Royal Navy – The new Astute-class nuclear submarines under constructions may be modified to allow them to carry women crew members. Times of London (registration required): New sub could make way for women crew US Navy – The contract for the design and building of CVN-77, the last Nimitz-class carrier, has been awarded to Newport [...]

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Malaysian Navy – A Malaysian Navy patrol boat fired on a trawler carrying illegal immigrants. One person was killed. BBC: Malaysian navy fires on trawler Southeast Asia – Background – Thailand and Malaysia grow closer together, as evidenced by the resumption of Thai-Malaysian naval exercises this year and the scaling back of US-Thai exercises this [...]