US Marines – The role played by US Marine aviators in Operation Anaconda.
US Navy – The USS Harry Truman is overhauled in near-record time.
Background – Iraq – An excellent essay that details how US foreign policy thinking is evolving in the Bush administration, and how this evolution in thinking will be used to depose Saddam Hussein.
Chinese Navy – China continues to move into strategic choke points around the world through its acquisition of port facilities, using its pseudo-commercial entities as cover.
US Navy – What life was like for the Theodore Roosevelt’s crew who had to keep its air group functioning for the last 6 months.
Royal Navy – Although they are supposed to be the replacement for Sea Harriers, no contract has been let yet to upgrade the RAF Harriers GR.7 to GR.9 status.
US Navy – A look at what the Cooperative Engagement Capability can do for a battlegroup commander.
US Navy – Why the Navy Area Wide missile defense program was canceled.
US Coast Guard – The Coast Guard begins to realize the immense resources needed to inspect all ships coming into the US.
US Marines – An essay that tries to define what Ship To Objective Maneuver means to the US Marines.
Romanian Navy – The Romanian Navy is attempting to buy Type 22-class frigates from the Royal Navy.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Vella Gulf, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser.
US Navy – How the reserves are helping in the war on terror.
Background – Strategy and Tactics – James Fallows asks why did the USAF change their tactics in Afghanistan – was it to keep the Navy out of the war?
Royal Navy – HMS Illustrious has returned home from the Arabian Sea. She has been replaced on station by HMS Ocean
US Navy – USS Theodore Roosevelt has returned home, members of her air wing comment on their missions.
US Navy – A US Navy ship has again been denied a port call in Hong Kong by China.
Background – Unmanned Submersible Vehicles – A sleek diving robot has been developed to perform ocean research, it can stay at sea for 5 years.
Royal Marines – How the lessons learned by 45 Commando in the Falklands may serve them well in Afghanistan.
Russian Navy – Plans are underway to raise the Kursk’s bow section.
US Navy – A review of what naval aviation has accomplished in Afghanistan to date.
Background – Iraq – James F. Dunnigan with a scenario for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein using a small force that moves with great speed.
Royal Marines – More on the Royal Marines of 45 Commando as they prepare for battle. Their deployment is called Operation Jacana, their mission is to hunt for Mullah Omar.
US Navy – A history of the Global Positioning System (GPS), including the key role played by the US Navy with its Transit navigation satellites.
Background – Nuclear Weapons – Sir John Keegan on why the US and UK are modifying their strategies for the use of nuclear weapons against rogue states.
Background – Iraq – An air campaign targeted against the ultimate mobile target – Saddam – will have great difficulty in succeeding.
Chinese Navy – Chinese Navy ships will not be visiting the US this year, as a protest over the visit of the Taiwanese defense minister to the US.
Canadian Navy – Canada is considering the purchase of a reconnaisance satellite to track ship and aircraft movement in the Arctic to help it enforce its sovereignty.
US Navy – Is the DDX class of ships a production project or a R&D project?
US Navy – Is the US Navy already considering cutting its purchase of F/A-18 E/Fs and JSFs?
US Navy – More on the upcoming SEAL organizational and training changes.
US Navy – A study suggests that forward basing of more ships would give the US Navy much more bang for its bucks.
US Navy – Has the US figured out a way to get conventionally power submarines to Taiwan? A US bank has purchased a controlling share in Germany’s Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard, which is the world’s premier exporter of conventional submarines.
Background – Transformation – Ralph Peters on how the post-colonial era has barely begun, and diplomats around the world are in denial about it.
US Navy – The US Navy is reconsidering using Yemen as a refueling port.
Russian Navy – There may have been survivors on the Kursk for days.
Royal Australian Navy – The readiness of the Australian armed forces is being undermined by shrinking defense budgets.
US Navy – The Naval Reserve Force is playing a crucial role in the war against terrorism; but it is tremendously underfunded.
Iranian Navy – North Korea is supply gunboats to Iran.
Royal Marines – 45 Commando is ready to go.
Merchant Marine – Lloyds of London declares it will no longer refer to ships as “she.”
Background – Transformation – Chuck Spinney on why transformation is tough – it has to overcome deeply entrenched interests.
Royal Marines – Sir John Keegan on how the British military is being stretched too thinly around the world.
Royal Navy – More on the retirement of the dock landing ship HMS Fearless.
Royal Australian Navy – Australia is considering adopting the Standard SM-2 surface to air missile for use aboard its Perry-class frigates.
Background – Information Warfare – A nice example of what the next generation of the digital battlefield will look like.
Royal Marines – 45 Commando, who have mountain warfare expertise, will deploy to Afghanistan to join in the ground battle against the Taliban.
US Navy – The SEALs are streamlining their organization, and changing how they will train and deploy.
US Navy – New Zealand will continue to refuse to allow US Navy nuclear powered ships to dock in its ports.
Background – Transformation – Frederick Kagan on why he thinks America today is similar to Britain in the 1930’s in terms of defense challenges faced, and why he believes transformation is important to America’s future defense needs.
French Navy – The French Navy has seized a ship carrying illegal immigrants in the Mediterranean.
Germany Navy – The Germany Navy is being criticized for not having adequate equipment to perform its missions.
US Navy – The pilot of the EP-3 downed over China gives his version of the story.
Background – Information Warfare – The use of information warfare in Afghanistan.
US Marines – With the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit inside Afghanistan.
Portugese Navy – The Portugese Navy is bankrupt and has been ordered back to port.
US Navy – How the US Navy is using instant messaging technology in combat between its ships and its allied ships.
US Navy – The US Navy would like to provide ashore housing for its junior enlisted sailors, who must now live aboard ship while in port.
US Navy – The military aspect of homeland defense.
US Navy – Reflecting of the sucess of unmanned aircraft in the war in Afghanistan, the US Navy is reconsidering the role of unmanned submarines – unmanned underwater vehicles, or UUVs.
Canadian Navy – HMCS Vancouver rescued a boatload of refugees in the Arabian Sea.
Background – Transformation – An interview with the US Army’s Chief of Staff on his initiative to create Medium Brigades within the US Army that will have more combat punch than light infantry but still be easily and quickly deployable around the world. He states that he wants the US Army to be more like the US Marines Corps, and sees them as a model!
Background – Information Warfare – James F. Dunnigan on likely targets for cyberwarriors.
Royal Navy – Excerpts from the memoirs of John Nott, which were published today. Nott was the UK’s Defense Secretary during the Falklands War. It is always fascinating to learn the politics behind the strategic and tactical decisions made in wartime. (There are 7 parts to the excerpts, to read them all follow the Related Reports links on the right side of the page under the Amazon ad.)
US Marines – Marine Cobra attack helicopters continue to provide close air support in Afghanistan.
NATO – A look at operations inside NATO’s Supreme Allied Command Atlantic during a recent wargame in Poland.
German Navy – Atlantique maritime patrol aircraft will be based in Kenya and will be used to help patrol the shipping lanes off the Horn of Africa. They join the German Navy task force based in Djibouti which is patroling the same area. Of interest is that maritime patrol aircraft from at least Germany, Canada, the US and the UK are working in the region as part of the coalition.
Royal Australian Navy – HMAS Canberra has replaced HMAS Adelaide in the Gulf.
US Navy – An extensive review of the Aegis Combat System, Cooperative Engagement Capability,
Naval Surface Fire Support, Theater Ballistic-Missile Defense, Mine Warfare, SQQ-89 Surface-Ship ASW System, Ship Self-Defense System, Surface Combatant Modernization, and the
Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures System.
Background – Information Warfare – In information warfare, for every measure, there is a countermeasure.
Canadian Navy – The submarine HMCS Windsor returns to sea.
US Navy – A US Navy pilot, listed as missing in action in Iraq since 1991, may be alive and in prison in Iraq. For full details, follow the link entitled “Scott Speicher: Dead or Alive?”
US Navy – The battle is joined for the USS John F Kennedy battlegroup.
Background – Iraq – The British are preparing their bases on Cyprus for “actual operations,” presumeably against Iraq.
Background – Iraq – The current US thinking and plans about how to oust Saddam Hussein.
US Coast Guard – On patrol with the Coast Guard’s Port Security Units.
Background – Transformation – An excellent review and update on where the US military currently is regarding transformation. The author hypothesizes that transformation is one of the casulaties of September 11.
Royal Marines – Royal Marines aboard HMS Ocean in the Arabian Sea await the call to action.
US Navy – If you have been wondering how P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft can be used to monitor ground operations over Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen, wonder no more. This excellent set of articles describes how the P-3’s with the aircraft improvement program (AIP) modification are conducting ground surveillance as well as surface ship surveillance throughout the Arabian Sea. The lessons learned here are being applied to the requirements specifications of the P-3’s successor.
French Navy – Aircraft from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle are flying strike missions in Afghanistan.
Italian Navy – The Italian Navy has been criticized for inadequate search and rescue efforts.
US Navy – The USS Peleliu’s amphibious ready group has returned home.
US Coast Guard – Why the LORAN system is still important for navigation, and how it is maintained.
Background – US strategic thought – A fascinating essay by Ralph Peters on why the US should stop pursuing stability as its goal in international relations, and should instead embrace instability.
Royal Navy – The dock landing ship HMS Fearless is to be scrapped before her replacement enters service. The Royal Navy’s Sea Harriers will be retired early and will be replaced by upgraded RAF Harrier GR9s – The Royal Navy’s carriers will thereby lose their organic air defense capability.
Canadian Navy – Why is Canada having so many problems with it’s Upholder-class submarines?
Background – US Strategy in the Pacific – An essay reviewing the Bush administration’s current strategy in the Pacific.
US Navy – The USS John F. Kennedy battlegroup has relieved the USS Thedore Roosevelt battlegroup in the Red Sea.
US Navy – A US task force is exercising in the Baltic Sea, in the biggest NATO exercise since the Cold War.
Canadian Navy – More on the flooding aboard the submarine HMCS Windsor – what happened was worse than originially revealed.
US Marines – How Civil Affairs personnel can aid a Marine air-ground task force.
Canadian Navy – HMCS Windor’s sea trials lasted only a few hours instead of two weeks. More troubles with the ex-Upholder class submarines for Canada.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan is considering a request from Australia to provide underway replenishment for its ships in the Arabian Sea. As usual, there are complications involved for the Japanese.
US Marines – Marine Sea Cobra and Sea Stallion helicopters from the USS Bon Homme Richard have been sent to aid US troops battling in the mountains in eastern Afghanistan; as replacements for damaged and lost US Army Apache and Chinook helicopters.
US Navy – The past, present and future of naval intelligence.
Background – Transformation – Ralph Peters on transformation and the military; and the relationship of the US Army’s upcoming medium brigades and the US Marines.
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