New York Times – Canada is exercising this year in the Arctic, to enforce its sovereignty claims there.more…
Monthly Archives:: August 2004
US Marines – In Western Iraq, Fundamentalists Hold U.S. at Bay
New York Times – A look at what the area around Fallujah is currently like for the US Marines stationed there.more…
US Navy – Sonar Used Before Whales Hit Shore
Washington Post – The Navy has acknowledged that vessels on maneuver off Hawaii last month used their sonar periodically in the 20 hours before a large pod of melon-headed whales unexpectedly came to shore in the area. The acknowledgement added to an already contentious debate over whether the sound from sonar has been causing marine [...]
US Marines – Logistics Modernization: A Marine Corps Warfighting Imperative
Marine Corps Gazette – The program’s importance is either above or at least on the same level with weapons systems we have coming down the road . . . MVñ22, Joint Strike Fighter, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. . . .more…
US Marines – Heavy armor proved its worth to American forces in Najaf battles
New York Times – A look at the different roles played by the Army and Marines in the battle for Najaf.more…
US Marines – Marine Corps Fratricide Reduction Efforts
Marine Corps Gazette – As the column of Marines advanced north to secure a strategic Euphrates River bridge just south of the city of An Nasiriyah they observed Iraqi soldiers along the roadside who appeared to be surrendering. Upon approaching them, the Iraqis opened fire with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. The Marines took [...]
Geopolitics / Sudan – Dying in Darfur
The New Yorker – A look at the civil war in Sudan.more…
Spanish Navy – Spain 'secretly backed coup by sending warships'
The Times – There was growing speculation in Madrid last night that the centre-right Government of JosÈ MarÌa Aznar, defeated by the socialists in elections in March, supported secret plans to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony. The Spanish had sent a naval task force to aid the coup.more…
US Navy – Kennedy skipper loses job in wake of collision with Iraqi boat
Virginian Pilot – The captain of the carrier John F. Kennedy is to be relieved of his command today following an investigation into the shipís collision with a small Iraqi boat in the Persian Gulf. more…
Iraq – An Accord for Now, But Risks Ahead
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks with the Pentagon’s analysis of the sitution in Najaf, now that the fighting is over.more…
Miscellaneous – Show Me in 'Merica
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks profiles Representative Ike Skelton, the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.more…
Iraq – Top Brass Won't Be Charged Over Abuse
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks looks at the dramatic leadership failures revealed by two investigations into the abuse of Iraqi detainees.more…
Iraq – In Iraq's Guerrilla War, Army Intelligence Faces a Tough Job
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks looks at how the latest Pentagon report on the detainee abuse scandal focuses on the role played by military intelligence, which arguably is the branch of the Army most challenged by the insurgency in Iraq. more…
US Navy – US goes back to basics in its war on terrorism
Daily Telegraph – With the crew of Mobile Security Force Squadron Two.more…
US Coast Guard – Collins Strikes Balance Between Present, Future Resources
Sea Power – An interview with the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Thomas J. Collins. more…
US Navy – Region to lose four ships as Navy shuffles its vessels
Virginian Pilot – The tenants at Norfolk Naval Base continue to change???more…
US Navy – Ages apart, two subs return to Norfolk together
Virginian Pilot – The submarine USS Virginia is completing her sea trials.more…
Iraq – Rumsfeld's War Plan Shares the Blame
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s leadership of the Pentagon has been weighed by a jury of his peers and found somewhat wanting. A report by a blue-ribbon panel he appointed to review the military establishment’s role in creating and handling detainee abuse problems at Abu Ghraib prison said that [...]
Nonlethal Weapons – The Quest for the Nonkiller App
New York Times Magazine – The Pentagon is developing a new class of sci-fi like ‘nonlethal’ weapons. But will they make war any safer or easier?more…
Terrorism – Pakistan, US take on the madrassahs
Christian Science Monitor – The madrasas are the nurseries of radical Islam. Are the US and Pakistan doing enough to reform them?more…
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