Center for Defense Information – Excellent summary that points out that
critical space capabilities are evolving rapidly throughout the world. The age of
microsatellites and low-cost launch will dramatically lower the threshold for nations
desiring space capabilities, likely producing a space-faring boom. The dissemination of
imagery capabilities useful for military operations as well as space surveillance
capabilities will continue ñ meaning that there will soon be ìno place to hideí either on
Earth or in space. (PDF format)
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Canadian Navy – Fire-damaged sub won't be operational until 2012
CBC – Repair work on the fire-ravaged HMCS Chicoutimi won’t start until 2010, leaving the Canadian navy short by one submarine and raising concerns about whether the vessel will ever be returned to service.
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US Marines – SAW 7202-06: 'The French Army at War In Algeria, 1954-1962'
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks attends a class at the School of Advanced Warfighting, Marine Corps University, Quantico.
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US Navy – Sonar Called Likely Stranding Cause
Washington Post – Federal marine specialists have concluded that Navy sonar was the most likely cause of the unusual stranding of melon-headed whales in a Hawaiian bay in 2004.
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Iraq – Sweeping Up
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments upon the U.S. Army War Collegeís Strategic Studies Institute analysis of the Iraq War entitled “Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War,î by David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker.
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US Navy – Pirates! Just what Pakistan Needs
Washington Post – William Arkin on why the US Special Operations Command is showing an increased interest in combating piracy in the Indian Ocean.
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Iraq – Behind the Revolt
Washington Post – Max Hastings puts the “general’s revolt” into some perspective???
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Pakistani Navy – Pakistan takes command patrolling Straits of Hormuz
Reuters – Pakistan took command on Monday of the multi-national Combined Task Force 150 patrolling waters around the Arabian Peninsula to stop terrorism and piracy, and search vessels suspected of smuggling arms or material used for making nuclear weapons.
US Navy – Navy seeks guidance of Vietnam ''river rats''
Virginian Pilot – Brown-water veterans are lending their expertise to the US Navy’s new brown-water force.
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US Marines – US and Japan make troop cost deal
BBC – Japan and the United States have resolved a dispute over the costs of relocating 8,000 US marines from Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam.
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Iraq – Iraqi Leader, in Frantic Flight, Eluded U.S. Strikes
Some interesting excerpts from the new book on the Iraq War entitled “Inside the Command” by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor.
New York Times – Iraqi Leader, in Frantic Flight, Eluded U.S. Strikes
New York Times – Even as U.S. Invaded, Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat
New York Times – Dash to Baghdad Left Top U.S. Generals Divided
New York Times – After Invasion, Point Man For Iraq Was Shunted Aside
New York Times – As Policy Decisions Loom, a Code of Silence Is Broken
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Geopolitics – Old States, New Threats
Washington Post – Robert Kaplan on the different types of dictators in the world.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday April 25
NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Tuesday April 25. See you then!
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South Korean Navy – South Korea, Japan Raise Tension Over Islet Group
Washington Post – A long-simmering dispute over a group of islets escalated sharply Wednesday, with South Korea dispatching a flotilla of 20 patrol ships toward the territory as the Japanese coast guard sought to conduct an official survey in surrounding waters.
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US Navy – Unmanned subs would revolutionize warfare, analyst says
GovExec – To counter China’s rapidly strengthening submarine fleet, the United States should spur a revolution in undersea warfare by focusing greater attention and resources on developing advanced unmanned underwater vehicles
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US Marines – Fighting Through the Fog of War
Marine Corps Gazette – Overcoming the friction points and succeeding in combat in the battle for An Nasiriyah on 23 March 2003.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Further Reflections on Unrestricted Warfare
Defense and the National Interest – Itís been seven years since two Chinese soldiers, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, released their treatise, Unrestricted Warfare. But their 228-page book should be read again by policymakers and warfighters because their points are directly relevant to the dangers facing the U.S. and its gargantuan military-industrial-Congressional complex.
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Iran – The Pentagon Preps for Iran
Washington Post – William Arkin summarizes US war planning to date for Iraq.
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Royal Marines – Marines to 'seek and destroy' Taliban insurgents
Daily Telegraph – British troops will be ordered to conduct “seek and destroy” operations in southern Afghanistan, despite an explicit government assurance that this would not happen.
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US Navy – 1,100 ready to surge into troubled waters
Virginian Pilot – The Fleet Response Plan in action???
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Iraq – Civilians Reign Over U.S. Military by Tradition and Design
New York Times – Should retired generals speak out against the Secretary of Defense?
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Geopolitics / Iraq – Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq
Foreign Affairs – During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community’s former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community’s expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.
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Iran – Despite Denials, U.S. Plans for Iran War
Washington Post – William Arkin describes the US Army’s wargaming / warplanning for an invasion of Iraq.
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Iran – Iran: Send in the Marines?
Washington Post – William Arkin describes wargaming / warplanning by the Marines for an invasion of Iran.
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Iraq – The Revolt Against Rumsfeld
Slate – Fred Kaplan writes on how the officer corps is getting restless.
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