Virginian Pilot – Aboard the US Navy’s newest submarine, the USS Virginia.
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Monthly Archives: October 2004
US Marines – Marines vent anger, frustration as their comrades die
Associated Press – With the Marines on the Syrian border.
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Iraq – Faulty Intelligence Misled Troops at War's Start
New York Times – In Part 3 of “Catastrophic Success,” Michael Gordon shows how the U.S.-led occupation authority’s disbanding of the Iraqi Army over a year ago cast a shadow over the occupation.
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Wargaming – When War Games Meet Video Games
Wired – You’d hardly expect to find dozens of defense strategists setting aside two weeks at a time to play a video game. But then, Urban Resolve is no ordinary video game. Developed by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, or JFCom, a division of the Department of Defense, the $195,000 program is a combat simulation on a massive scale. It pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege, and it’s capable of modeling the behavior of the nearly 1 million entities — the soldiers, civilians, cars, tanks and so on — that might exist in such a conflict.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – 4GW, High Noon, And How Even I Get It Now.
Defense and the National Interest – A martial artist contemplates fourth generation warfare.
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Iraq – Faulty Intelligence Misled Troops at War's Start
New York Times – In the second article in his series “Catastrophic Success,” Michael Gordon show how much of the information provided by the C.I.A. to those prosecuting the war and planning the occupation proved wrong.
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US Navy – Navy makes a clothes call
US Navy – The Navy is testing new uniforms for its sailors.
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US Navy – Ship System Innovations Will Have Lasting Impact on Navy's Future
Sea Power – The U.S. Navyís transformation in the post-Cold War era has brought an array of high-tech innovations that captured the publicís imagination. As the nation struck back at al-Qaeda or fought to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders, the public spotlight has focused on the Navyís futuristic unmanned vehicles, super-automated mission-control centers and precision munitions. But more mundane innovations in ships systems and operations also will have a lasting, though less dramatic, impact on the Navy of the 21st century.
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Iraq – Catastrophic Success – The Strategy to Secure Iraq Did Not Foresee a 2nd War
New York Times – Michael Gordon describes how many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration’s miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.
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Iraq – Drawing From Its Past Wars, Britain Takes a Tempered Approach to Iraqi Insurgency
New York Times – The perspective of Empire applied to Iraq – the British Army’s view of the current situation on the ground in Iraq.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Keeping Our SA Up
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind reminds all Fourth Generationists to follow the old fighter pilot rule: keep your situational awareness up. If you donít, if you allow yourself to focus on just one aspect of the Fourth Generation threat, youíre gonna get hosed.
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Terrorism – Bin Laden bought ship ëfor terror'
The Times – Al Qaeda continues to acquire a fleet.
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US Navy – As Underwater Threat Re-emerges, Navy Renews Emphasis on ASW
Sea Power – After a decade in the shadows, the Navy has put antisubmarine warfare (ASW) back at the top of its warfighting priorities, injecting new leadership and increased funding into the fight against a re-emerging undersea threat.
Iraq – Iraq's Barbed Realities
Washington Post – An interesting look at what went wrong in Fallujah, from the Washington Post’s recently returned chief correspondent in Iraq, who was in Iraq for the last 2 years.
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Geopolitcs / Iraq – Iraq's Kurds and Turkey: Challenges for US Policy
Parameters – A look at the Kurds role in the future of Iraq.
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Taiwanese Navy – U.S. to build 8 subs in deal with Taiwan
Taipei Times – Should Taiwan buy used Sauro-class submarines from Italy, rather than buying new submarines from the US?
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US Navy – New chief takes control of Navy submarine fleet
Virginian Pilot – The navy has a new top submarine commander.
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History – Shadow Warrior: OSS Marine Operational Group, Union II
Leatherneck – Sixty years ago Jack Risler was among a select group of Marine operators in “the shadowy world of espionage, sabotage and guerrilla warfare.”
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Russian Navy – Russia to join NATO patrols in Mediterranean
Associated Press – Russia agreed Thursday to send warships to help NATO’s naval patrols monitoring suspicious vessels in the Mediterranean as part of a drive for closer counterterrorism co-operation between Moscow and the western alliance.
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US Navy – S.D. might be home to Swedish sub
San Diego Union Tribune – If the US leases a Swedish submarine, there is a good chance it will be based in San Diego.
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US Navy – Navy changes how it names carriers' warship groups
San Diego Union Tribune – ???enter the “Carrier Strike Group”???
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Piracy – Rise in Murders, Kidnappings at Sea Makes Piracy a Top Naval Priority Worldwide
Sea Power – International piracy has become a top priority for military and police officials from Southeast Asia to Africa and the United States.
Canadian Navy – Canada confines 'UK subs' to port
BBC – Canada has temporarily withdrawn from service three of its second-hand UK-built submarines following last week’s fatal blaze on a fourth vessel.
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US Navy – Navy ships leave Norfolk to support the war on terrorism
Virginian Pilot – The USS Harry S Truman battlegroup deploys for a 6 month cruise.
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US Navy – New submarine Virginia turned over to the Navy
Virginian Pilot – The USS Virginia is turned over to the Navy.
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