Reuters – The USNS Mercy completes her mission in Indonesia for a second time.more…
Monthly Archives:: April 2005
History – Okinawa Fight Matched Overwhelming Firepower With Desperate Resistance
Sea Power – A look at the battle for Okinawa. more…
US Marines – Forced Marriage
Sea Power – Pentagon orders Marine Corps and Army to merge two situational awareness systems, but cultural differences prevail. more…
Miscellaneous – Mystery ship may be used to track AF rocket
Associated Press – A mystery ship that has been cloaked in secrecy since it docked in Portland Harbor three weeks ago may carry equipment used to observe an Air Force rocket on a top-secret mission.more…
Ground Warfare – Dick Winters' Reflections on His Band of Brothers, D-Day and Leadership
American History – Major Richard “Dick” Winters of “Band of Brothers” fame speaks candidly about the men and actions of Easy Company and reflects on D-Day and the lessons he learned about leadership. more…
US Navy – Sea Services Bring Forth A New Revolution in Aviation
Sea Power – Government and industry experts looking for ways to streamline their organizations and improve readiness should take a few pointers from the sea servicesí aviation programs. more…
Fourth Generation Warfare – On Strategy
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on how the Marines should design a strategy for Iraq.more…
US Marines – Marines From Iraq Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men
New York Times – In returning home to the US from Iraq, Marines have chosen to break an institutional code of silence and tell their story, one they say was punctuated not only by a lack of armor, but also by a shortage of men and planning that further hampered their efforts in battle, destroyed [...]
Finnish Navy – Finnish Navy Orders Fourth Hamina Fast-Attack Craft
Sea Power – The latest naval news from Finland, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, and Oman. more…
Editorial Note – NOSI on break until April 25
NOSI is taking a short break and will next be updated on Monday April 25th. I have added this weekend’s reading for you. See you Monday!
Geopolitics / Strategy – How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War?
Parameters – In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” more…
History – Lessons from a Successful Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, 1899-1902
Parameters – The United States topples an unsavory regime in relatively brief military action, suffering a few hundred fatalities. America then finds itself having to administer a country unaccustomed to democratic self-rule. Caught unawares by an unexpectedly robust insurgency, the United States struggles to develop and implement an effective counterinsurgency strategy. The ongoing US presidential [...]
US Marines – The SOCOM Dilemma
Sea Power – Defense Secretary Rumsfeld wants more Marine involvement in the command, but there is a deep divide over how that will be accomplished.more…
US Marines – Operation Homecoming
News Hour – Writing military history, from the ground up.more…
US Navy – Senate rejects retiring carrier JFK this year
Virginian Pilot – Senators rebuked a Navy plan today to retire the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy later this year, likely forestalling the proposed transfer of a Norfolk-based flattop to the Kennedy’s homeport in Mayport, Fla.more…
Wargaming – War games
Guardian – In offices created by an ex-Star Trek designer and using techniques and technology from movies and gaming, some of Hollywood’s top creative talents are helping the US military to train for war in the 21st century.more…
US Marines – Interview With a Senator and a Marine
Marine Corps Gazette – The ranks of former Marines serving in Congress are thinning. In this interview the author profiles one of our most distinguished Marine Corps ambassadors who served brilliantly in the United States Senate. more…
US Navy – Navy of Tomorrow, Mired in Yesterday's Politics
New York Times – The price of the Navy’s new ships, driven upward by old-school politics and the rusty machinery of American shipbuilding, may scuttle the Pentagon’s plans for a 21st-century armada of high-technology aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines.more…
US Navy – Legislation could stall mothballing of Kennedy
Virginian Pilot – Virginia’s senior U.S. senator put himself and his considerable clout behind a new effort to save the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy on Monday, introducing legislation designed to force the Navy to keep the ship in service until at least the middle of 2006.more…
Information Warfare – U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew
Wired – A look at the Pentagon’s cyberwar capabilities.more…
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