New York Times – In a muscular display of its rising military and economic might, China deployed a fleet of five warships on Friday near a gas field in the East China Sea, a potentially resource-rich area that is disputed by China and Japan.
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Daily Archives: September 11, 2005
Canadian Navy – Canadian hurricane relief ships to arrive Monday, unbeknownst to survivors
CBC – Canada is sending a task force to aid relief efforts on the Gulf Coast???
???as did the Dutch and Mexican Navies: CBS – Gulf Coast Invaded???With Kindness.
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US Navy – Rerouted: Senator Lott of Mississippi steps in to divert hospital ship
Philadelphia Inquirer – US Senators now appear to be in charge of US Navy operational deployments???
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Geopolitics / Taiwan – Taiwan : Melos or Pylos?
Naval War College Review – If taken to heart, lessons of the Peloponnesian War could help clarify thinkingóand dispel dangerous illusionsóin Taipei, Beijing, and Washington. The island of Melos learned the futility of unsupported resistance against overwhelming factors of force and geography; the Athenians and Spartans learned at Pylos expensive lessons about the difficulties of island campaigning and about the unpredictability of warfare as a policy.
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