US Marines – A year of flight testing has led to a reversal of fortune for the V-22, with senior Pentagon officials giving their blessing to take the tiltrotor into a higher production rate.
Canadian Navy – Should Canada purchase aircraft carriers?
International Naval News – Naval news from Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, and the Netherlands.
Chinese Navy – China continues to probe Taiwan’s defenses.
US Marines – The Deputy Commandant for Aviation provides his annual assessment.
US Navy – The differences between the USS Ronald Reagan and other Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
US Navy – An Interview with Rep. Edward L. Schrock, Chairman of the Navy-Marine Corps Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Background – Airpower – Some official lessons learned from the USAF in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Royal Navy – Are further deep cuts ahead for the Royal Navy?
US Navy – Linked by high-tech communications systems, commanding officers never again will be alone at sea. They are at the tip of a spear whose aim is now influenced by thousands of well-intentioned but largely invisible hands that act from hundreds of nodes on a worldwide network.
Royal Navy – The nuclear submarine HMS Tireless may have hit an iceberg while submerged.
NATO – NATO is tracking 20 merchant ships believed to be used by Al Qaeda.
Russian Navy – Why it is important to help Russia in dismantling its retired nuclear submarines.
US Navy – Naval Network Warfare Command is integrating systems, capabilities, sensors, and people to achieve a netted warfighting force.
Background – Network Centric Warfare – The ability of Canadian warships to operate in U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups demonstrates that coalition network-centric naval warfare is possible. It has also shown, however, that the price of admission for coalition navies is high, in terms of technical interoperability, professional trust, and policyóabove all, with respect to information transfer.
Indian Navy – More on the importance of the current exercises between the Indian and Russian navies.
US Navy – The US commissions a new antiterrorist squadron.
US Navy – The Chief of Naval Operations on the future of the US Navy.
Background – Airpower – James F. Dunnigan gives an overview of the air war in Iraq.
Background – Information Warfare – A fascinating look at how the US wired the battlefield in Iraq to allow Internet connectivity between units.
Israeli Navy – Israel seizes a ship at sea carrying supplies for terrorists.
US Navy – The sea services muster unmanned aerial vehicles for growing list of missions.
US Navy – A quick first pass at lessons learned by the US Navy in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Background – Iraq – Thomas Friedman describes insightfully the current state of affairs in Iraq.
US Marines – Marine Corps embraces the concept of sea basing.
US Navy – Is this the last cruise of the USS Constellation? Meanwhile, the Chief of Naval Operations says “The Navy must “create a culture of readiness.””
US Navy – Sea Power 21 Series: Part VI
Taiwanese Navy – Taiwan needs to replace its S-2 Trackers, but new P-3C’s are too expensive.
Russian Navy – An overview of the India – Russian naval exercises about to get underway.
Background – History – The history of catamarans in the US Navy.
Canadian Navy – Canada is reducing its naval committment to the Gulf.
Indian Navy – The US will send a nuclear attack submarine to exercise with India.
US Marines – US Marines are operating inside Kenya, hunting for terrorists.
Background – Naval Strategy – Certain classic functions of navies have disappeared (for the time being at least), others have changed, and a few new ones have emerged. In the new conditions, navies at war will strive to make sure that friendly ships and aircraft can get where they are needed when they are needed, and that those of the enemy cannot do these things. Furthermore, as occasion demands, navies will land forces, when possible in friendly ports, if necessary on or over hostile shores, and support them then and thereafter with fire and logistics.
Royal Navy – HMS Ark Royal returns home.
Singaporean Navy – Royal Navy ships are in Singapore for exercises.
Thai Navy – Exercise Cobra Gold is underway between Thailand, the US, and Singapore.
US Coast Guard – A special report from the USCG commandant on the IDS (Integrated Deepwater System) program.
Al Aaeda – How terrorists could attack the US from cargo ships.
US Navy – The USS Carl Vinson heads back to sea.
US Marines – No Service was better prepared to fight the war on terror than the Marine Corps, yet it was relegated to the periphery. Has the Nationís premiere small unit infantry been replaced by the joint Special Operations Command?
Background – Laser Weapons – An interesting overview on the use of lasers as weapons.
Russian Navy – Russia considers using Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarines as tankers.
International Naval News – News on the Australian, Canadian, German, and Portugese navies.
US Navy – A look at the US Navy’s mine countermeasures activities in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Background – Non-lethal weapons – A sceptical look at non-lethal weapons.
US Navy – Life aboard the destroyer USS Briscoe.
US Navy – An update on the Navyís future generation of surface combatants.
Royal Navy – England performs a drug bust in the Mid-Atlantic.
US Marines – Marine Corps doctrine for attack helicopter close air support (CAS) is not responsive to the needs of the ground commander and should be revised.
Background – Embedding – William Arkin shows the true value of the embedded journalists.
Background – Seymour Hersh – I enjoying Seymour Hersh’s work as I consider it to be interesting and well written. Here is a fascinating analysis of Hersh’s work – basically if Hersh makes a predictation, he is bound to be wrong!
US Navy – Naval aviation news from around the US fleet.
Background – Targeting – Regional commanders and their staffs must be vigilant to ensure that they attack only targets that are legal under the law of war, and only in legal ways. They must be equally vigilant, however, against nongovernmental activists who would so reinterpret the law as to make their tasks much more difficult, even impossible.
US Navy – The USS Carl Vinson visits Japan.
Background – Information Warfare – An outstanding program on the information warfare threat to the US. I’ve linked below to the transcript, visit the Home page to watch the show or view more information.
???I will be able to update NOSI today and tomorrow after all???
US Navy – The USS Ronald Reagan successfully completes builders trials.
Background – Intelligence – Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?
Background – Intelligence – Seymour M. Hersh looks at a small circle of analysts and advisers at the Pentagon who came to rival the C.I.A. as the President’s primary source of intelligence about Iraq; Hersh reports that questions have been raised about the integrity of the intelligence the group relied on.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Mount Whitney, off the Horn of Africa.
Chinese Navy – China did not even know one of its submarines was missing???
NOSI will next be updated on Sunday. Until then, here are some extra articles to keep you occupied???
US Navy – The Navy is moving with “lightning speed” to design and build a fleet of up to 65 Littoral Combat Ships.
US Marines – The complexities and requirements involved in river crossings are explained.
Merchant Marine – What steps are being taken to protect US ports from terrorism.
Background – Strategy – How Colonel John Boyd’s theory of Penetrate-Isolate-Subvert-Reorient-Reharmonize was used in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Chinese Navy – More details on the Chinese submarine disaster.
Royal Navy – John Keegan on why the UK needs new large-deck aircraft carriers.
US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk returns home.
US Navy – The USS Ronald Reagan begins builders trials.
US Navy – How the US is trying to document “lessons learned” in Iraq.
US Navy – Norman Friedman on the similar lessons learned from both Gulf Wars.
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