Royal Navy – The crew of HMS Trafalgar are cleared of mutiny. The Times: Crew in nuclear sub are cleared of mutiny US Marines – A complete change of plan for the Marines – advocating the development of an Iraqi militia to take over in Fallujah. Taking a page from the “Small Wars” Manual? Washington [...]

US Marines – The latest in Fallujah. Washington Post: Warplanes Pound Sections of Fallujah PBS News Hour: Fallujah Fight US Navy – An interview with Rear Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald, director of air warfare for the chief of naval operations. Sea Power: Fitzgerald: Re-capitalization Poses Challenge for Naval Air Background – Iraq – An insightful [...]

Royal Navy – Some of the submarine HMS Trafalgar’s crew lose confidence in her. Daily Telegraph: Submarine crew put ashore after trial US Marines – With the Marines in Fallujah. CNN: Reporter: Marines in Fallujah appear ‘geared up’ US Navy – A recent symposium spanning 25 sometimes turbulent years of integrating women into the fleet. [...]

US Marines – With the Marines inside Fallujah. Washington Post: Amid an Unseen Enemy, The Welcome Dog of War US Navy – The US will change how it guards Iraqi oil terminals from terrorist suicide attacks. Washington Post: U.S. to Change Tactics After Gulf Attacks US Navy – In September 2005, a little-known engineering office [...]

Please Note: Do not use the address nosi.org when trying to access NOSI. Make sure to use www.nosi.org. This is a technical glitch we are still working on fixing. Indian Navy – India restores the Cross of St. George to its emblem. Daily Telegraph: Indian navy restores cross of St George Royal Australian Navy – [...]

Finally! – NOSI has been successfully transferred to its new hosting service. We should no longer experience any server outages (knock wood!). Here is a catchup of all news items from April 3 until today. Many very interesting items, please take your time going through them. The big news item while we were down were [...]

NOSI Update – Last week, NOSI’s Web hosting service suffered a service outage. At that time I decided to finally transfer NOSI to a new hosting service, which would use its address http://www.nosi.org. There have been some technical problems transferring NOSI to this new hosting service, but they hope to have the bugs ironed very [...]

French Navy – The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is exercising in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean. Agence France-Presse: French aircraft carrier stops in Abu Dhabi on the way to India Royal Navy – The cuts run even deeper – there will be no Harrier aircraft to fly off of HMS Ark Royal. Daily [...]

Royal Navy – The UK will withdraw HMS Invincible and HMS Illustrious from service. Daily Telegraph: Navy to ‘lose two carriers’ in cutback US Marines – A look at the Marine’s activities in Fallujah to date. Jordan Times: Marines seek to pacify Fallujah with show of force, residents are sceptical US Marines – The Marines [...]