Indian Navy – Experts are urging the Indian government to pay more attention to the importance of the Indian Navy.

• Rediff: Experts urge govts to see importance of seas

US Navy – Part one of a series on the Pentagon defense review, which will urge the military to fundamentally rethink their approach to the weapons they buy.

• MSNBC: Sacred cows in the cross hairs

Canadian Navy – The Canadian Navy continues to hint it will soon retire its Tribal-class destroyers, along with 2 of its supply ships.

• The Canadian Press: Navy to drop some choppers from contract

Indonesian Navy – The Indonesian Navy assisted in evacuating refugees from the recent ethnic clashes in the province of Central Kalimantan in Borneo.

• BBC: Borneo evacuation chaos as violence spreads
  

Pakistani Navy – The Pakistani Navy intends to equip its submarines with nuclear weapons.

• The Hindu: Pak. subs to have nukes

Malaysian Navy – the Malaysian Navy recently intercepted 15 Filipinos who entered Malaysia illegally.

• Manila Times: Malaysian navy intercepts15 illegal Pinoy migrants
  

Black Sea – background – Members of the newly created Blackseafor have met for the first time.

• Radio Free Europe: Georgia: Black Sea States Naval Chiefs Hold First Congress

Taiwanese Navy – How Taiwan uses its Guppy-class submarines.

• New York Times: Taiwan’s Guppy-Size Force
  

Background – US Defense Review – A potential flaw of the current defense review is that it is focusing on the forces needed for common, low and medium intensity conflicts; but not on the forces needed for rare high intensity conflicts.

• Stratfor: U.S. Military: No Room for the Unexpected

US Marine Corps – An article advocating that the Marines need to change their assault rifle, and a suggestion on what it should be changed to.

• Marine Corps Gazette: Replacing the M16A2: A New Rifle for the 21st Century

US Navy – the US Navy will expand its Master-at-Arms force, to increase security for ships in port.

• Virginian Pilot: Navy expands armed security force

US Marine Corps – An excellent investigation into what went wrong at Osprey squadron VMMT-204, and why there are so many problems with the Osprey.

• Washington Post: A troubled Osprey wounds the Corps

Egyptian Navy – The Egyptian Navy will soon be upgrading its fast attack craft and their surface-to-surface missiles.

• Jane’s: Egypt to upgrade FACs, missiles

Indian Navy – The Indian Navy again appears to be close to a deal with Russia to lease a nuclear submarine.

• Rediff: India, Russia close to clinching sub deal

Royal Navy – The current and projected state of the Royal Navy’s submarine force.

• Jane’s: Coming up from the deep, in from the cold

Pakistani Navy – The Pakistani Navy is exercising with the navies of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

• Pakistan News Service: Pak, Bangladesh hold joint naval exercises

US Navy – Continued debate over whether low frequency active sonar harms marine mammals.

• New York Times: Researchers Fear Navy’s Sonar May Harm Whales
• Honolulu Advertiser: Opinion on Navy sonar sharply divided
  

• Los Angeles Times: Navy Seeks to Test Sonar; Some Fear Effect on Whales