BBC – A project management contract for two Royal Navy aircraft carriers, currently under construction in Scotland, is likely to be handed to a US firm.
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
US Navy – U.S. hospital ship to sail from Singapore to tsunami-hit Indonesia
Deutsche Presse Agentur – The hospital ship USNS Mercy sets sail from Singapore to a position off of Sumatra.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – The Sorrows Of Old Werther
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on what powers Fourth Generation Warfare – Belief – which is something the West lacks.
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US Navy – US Navy officer attacks 'travelling circus of aid workers' for impeding the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia
Daily Telegraph – An interesting dissenting view on the tsunami relief effort, from aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Transformation – The Pentagon's Debate Over What Iraq Means
Command Post – Thomas P.M. Barnett on how the ability to wage network centric warfare and fourth generation warfare will be essential in a transformed US military.
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Geopolitics / Law – Legal Appraisal of Military Action in Iraq
Naval War College Review – Saddam Hussein, in over a decade of deception and defiance ending in March 2003, repudiated sixteen United Nations Security Council resolutions designed to ensure that Iraq did not threaten international peace and circumvented ten others imposing economic sanctions. What is the international law related to intervention in the case of such violations? The values underlying the UN Charter must be reconciled with its procedures.
US Navy – Whale Stranding in N.C. Followed Navy Sonar Use
Washington Post – At least 37 whales beached themselves and died along the North Carolina shore earlier this month soon after Navy vessels on a deep-water training mission off the coast used powerful sonar as part of the exercise.
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Iraq – A Man of the Shadows
New Yorker – The difficult past and the uncertain future of Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s interim Prime Minister.
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History – The Greatest Raid of All
World War II Magazine – The British raid on St. Nazaire, France, eliminated a vital German port facility and cemented the commandos’ reputation as redoubtable fighters.
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US Navy – Navy Releases Photos of Crash Damage to Nuclear Submarine
New York Times – Pictures of the damaged bow of the USS San Francisco.
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US Coast Guard – Coast Guard Organization and Mission
SeaPower – The state of the Coast Guard in January 2005.
US Marines – Marine Corps Organization and Mission
SeaPower – The state of the Corps in January 2005.
Transformation – Pentagon Prepares to Rethink Focus on Conventional Warfare
Washington Post – The Pentagon has drafted terms for an ambitious reshaping of U.S. forces that would put less emphasis on waging conventional warfare and more on dealing with insurgencies, terrorist networks, failed states and other nontraditional threats.
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Intelligence – Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain
Washington Post – The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA’s historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad. This confirms details of the New Yorker story on this subject from last week???
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US Marines – NBCD Equipment Consolidation
Marine Corps Gazette – For intervals between wars, the nuclear, biological, and chemical defense equipment (NBCDE) readiness in the Marine Corps has been like the neglected stepchild. With the global war on terrorism all around us, the authors identify a much needed change in our NBCD posture.
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US Navy – The Tomcat's final flight
Virginian Pilot – As their 32-year run as the premier Navy fighter begins to wane, the F-14 Tomcats that no one needs are being fed into a junk yard’s shredder, nose first, to become blocks of aluminum for cans, crates, even cars.
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US Navy – Modeling and Simulation: Working With Systems That Do Not Yet Exist
SeaPower – Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a new reality in naval warfare. The use of mockups, scale models and computerized M&S reduces the risk involved in developing, building and testing new combat systems. With M&S, training is more available, effective and realistic, fostering rapid, less costly validation of future concepts and new rules of engagement.
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US Navy – Danger Zone That Wasn't, and a Sub's Hidden Peril
New York Times – Satellite images of the area where the nuclear submarine USS San Francisco grounded two weeks ago clearly show a wedge-shaped undersea mountain that stretches across more than a mile of a desolate expanse of the South Pacific.
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Intelligence – Book of U.S. Code Names Challenges Secrecy
Washington Post – What William Arkin is up to these days – he hopes to undermine agencies’ ability to make decisions in the dark.
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US Marines – Swan Song at FOB Salerno
Leatherneck – A combat-experienced Marine reservist deployed for one last “oorah” in Afghanistan.
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Geopolitics / Media – The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations"
Parameters – A look at how the news media is attempting to cover Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations.”
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US Navy – U.S. Navy May Adjust UAV Plans
Aviation Week and Space Technology – The U.S. Navy is trying to harmonize its unmanned aircraft plans and is preparing to tweak its intelligence system in the coming months in response to guidance issued by the service’s top officer.
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Royal Navy – Brit sailors not used to cold
Halifax Herald – HMS Albion is exercising in the North Atlantic.
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History – Great Britain's Forgotten Commandos
World War II Magazine – In World War II the Royal Navy Commandos spearheaded British amphibious assaults in Europe and Asia. Although little known today, these commandos were vital to the success of many of the most important Allied landings, among them the July 10, 1943, invasion of Sicily.
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US Navy – U.S. Sees End to Tsunami Relief, Survivors Worry
Reuters – U.S. forces said they were prepared to wind down tsunami relief efforts in Asia.
CNN – Indonesia says it won’t expel foreign aid troops – The USS Bonhomme Richard is being replaced by the USS Essex off of Sumatra.
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