New York Times – Preparations continue for the assault on Fallujah.
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Monthly Archives: November 2004
Geopolitics / Europe – The Trouble with Mixed Motives: Debating the Political, Legal, and Moral Dimensions of Intervention
Naval War College Review – The strains in the transatlantic relationship from disagreement about the authorization and justification for the Iraq war arise from failure of national governments to balance the moral, legal, and political elements of which motives in international politics are invariably a mixture. In the 1999 Kosovo intervention, all three imperatives were satisfied; how can such consensus be reached in the future?
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History – Italian Naval Massacre
Military History – During the March 28, 1941, Battle of Cape Matapan, British Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham decided once and for all who would be master of the Mediterranean.
US Marines – Air of Expectation Is Heavy as G.I.'s Itch to Prove Their Mettle in Falluja
New York Times – The Marines get ready to take Fallujah.
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US Marines – Ethics and Leadership
Marine Corps Gazette – Marine leaders often find themselves in situations that test their mettle in areas of integrity. Here the author provides some real-world examples of leadership breaches.
US Navy – Crew swaps could extend to Marine amphib groups
Virginian Pilot – The Navyís crew-swapping experiments aboard destroyers and smaller ships could be expanded to entire Marine Corps battalions and the amphibious ships on which they deploy, according to the first Marine general to command a traditionally Navy-run expeditionary strike group
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US Navy – Northrop Grumman Combat UAV is Set for Flight in 2007
Sea Power – Naval news from around the fleet.
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Russian Navy – Russian nuclear submarine fires ballistic missile
Xinhua – A nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet successfully fired a ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk.
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US Navy – Will Judgment Be a Casualty of NCW?
US Naval Institute Proceedings – Technology is a powerful enabler, but it threatens to compromise the decision-making prerogatives of the commander closest to the action with the best view to make decisive judgments.
North Korean Navy – N. Korea warns of naval conflict
CNN – North Korea has accused the South’s navy of staging a serious provocation that could lead to a maritime conflict.
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US Marines – American firepower in place as battle for Fallujah looms
The Times – Only a few miles separate the rebel city of Fallujah from the sprawling complex of US Marine bases. While the Iraqi city is steadily emptying of people, the American camps are rapidly filling up with extra men and armour, ready for what is expected to be a fight for the very soul of Iraq.
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US Navy – Affordability is Key to Future of Naval Aviation
Sea Power – An interview with the commander of the Naval Air Systems Command, Vice Adm Walter Massenburg.
Norwegian Navy – Submarine collides with tanker
BBC – A Norwegian submarine on a UK-organised military exercise has collided with a tanker in the Minch.
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US Navy – Admiral says Navy must practice fiscal restraint
Virginian Pilot – The Navy must learn to operate more frugally.
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Iraq – The Believer
New Yorker – Paul Wolfowitz defends his war.
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