Naval War College Review – Southeast Asia has responded to the maritime dangers that in the 1990s replaced Cold War rivalries, and the terrorist threat that has more recently stepped to the forefront, producing an unprecedented degree of “operationalized” interstate cooperation. Fundamental obstacles remain, but the underlying dynamics are promising.
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Geopolitics – The Power Brokers
Foreign Affairs – In Running the World, David Rothkopf provides page after page of raw material on the history and workings of the National Security Council. Unfortunately, the information is not matched by much rigorous analysis.
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Military Space – Cold War spy satellite program declassified
Space.com – The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Security Agency (NSA) and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have declassified the fact that a series of satellites was orbited from 1962 through 1971, designated POPPY. POPPYís mission was to collect radar emissions from Soviet naval vessels.
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Mexican Navy – Mexican marines were prepared to do more
San Jose Mercury News – A look at the Mexican contribution to Gulf Coast relief operations.
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US Marines – Pentagon pulling 4,700 troops from Gulf Coast
Reuters – The US Marines and US Navy pull out of Gulf Coast relief operations.
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Chinese Navy – Shifts in Pacific Force U.S. Military To Adapt Thinking
Washington Post – Another look at the threat posed by China’s military rise.
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History – Missouri Ceremony 60 Years Ago Marked Victory in the Pacific
Sea Power – A look at the Japanese surrender ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri.
US Navy – Grim Reaper comes calling for F-14 training unit
Virginian Pilot – The current and past history of the Grim Reaper’s fighter squadron.
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Iraqi Navy – Looking For Tripwires
Sea Power – Nations cooperate to patrol Persian Gulf waters as Iraqi Navy trains to assume security responsibility.
US Marines – Amphibious Operations in the Gulf War: 1990ñ91
Marine Corps Gazette – For all those who thought that Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were merely land campaigns fought by opposing forces, the author provides a detailed view of the important role amphibious planning and operations played in bottling up the forces under Saddam Hussein.
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Indian Navy – India's navy in $1.8bn sub deal
BBC – India is to bolster its navy with the purchase of six Franco-Spanish Scorpene-class submarines in a deal worth $1.8billion.
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US Marines – Set to Soar
Sea Power – The MV-22 Osprey overcomes its troubled past but is too fast for current armed escorts. Will the Cobra Zulu copter provide a solution?
Terrorism – Taking Stock of the Forever War
New York Times Magazine – A terrorist leader four years ago, Osama bin Laden is now an ideology as well ó and a viral movement.Terrorist attacks worldwide are on the rise. Iraq could well end up a “failed” state. Maybe it’s time to stop fighting on their terms.
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Terrorism – Lost at Tora Bora
New York Times Magazine – In December 2001, Osama bin Laden was cornered in a mountainous region along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Why wasn’t he captured? And why can’t he be apprehended now?
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US Marines – Pachinko Ball Leadership or Leadership by Thirds, Quarters, and Five or Six Good Rules
Marine Corps Gazette – The author provides a fresh look at leadership challenges Marines and sailors face these days and offers some commonsense solutions using the Japanese pinball game of pachinko in his analogy.
Chinese Navy – The Modernization of the Chinese Navy
Power and Interest News Report – A number of advanced warships will gradually come into service in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (P.L.A.N.) in the next two years. The bulk of these ships will belong to two new guided missile destroyer classes called 052B and 052C. The 052C will be fitted with an advanced integrated air defense system, supposedly similar to the U.S. Aegis phased-array radar display, with a high capability to engage multiple targets simultaneously.
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US Navy – Forward Progress
Sea Power – The sea basing scheme that would revolutionize U.S. power projection moves toward Joint Chiefs’ approval as a joint warfighting concept.
Chinese Navy – Japan's Rivalry With China Is Stirring a Crowded Sea
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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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.
Geopolitics / China – In China's Own Eyes
Foreign Affairs – The Man Who Changed China, a state-sanctioned portrait of Jiang Zemin, reflects the image that China’s new leaders want their people to see: pragmatic, moderate, and above politics. The vision, however, does not often match reality.
History – Raeder versus Wegener
Naval War College Review – German naval thought between the world wars was defined by a dispute between two distinguished officers: one who critiqued German naval performance in the conflict just ended, the other obliged to meet the very different realities of the war to come. Neither was wholly wrong or entirely correct; the disagreement produced concepts that mark naval doctrine today.
US Navy – Florida Pilots 'Counseled' for Rescues
Associated Press – A look at how initiative is reward in the US Navy today???
Update: Here is the original article from the New York Times – Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
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US Navy – Controlling the Command
Sea Power – A deployable joint command and control center steps from Navy labs toward fighting forces in a major test by Southern Command.
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