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Monthly Archives: June 2006
US Navy – U.S. agency OKs naval exercise despite sonar concern
Reuters – A federal agency on Tuesday granted the U.S. Navy permission to proceed with international naval exercises off Hawaii this week, despite the concerns of environmentalists about sonar’s effect on marine mammals.
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Geopolitics / Middle East – Blood Borders
Armed Forces Journal – Ralph Peters proposes redrawing the borders of the Middle East based upon ethnic and religious identity.
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Canadian Navy – O'Connor confirms plan to build three new ships
CTV – Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor confirms Ottawa will go ahead with its plan to commission the construction of three naval supply ships.
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Israeli Navy – Israel in first NATO tactical exercise
Jerusalem Post -For the first time in history the Israeli Navy is participating in a tactical NATO exercise on the Black Sea.
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Russian Navy – Russian Navy to have Atlantic, Mediterranean drills this summer
ITAR-TASS – The Russian Navy will have exercises in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea this summer.
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US Navy – Damaged submarine to get a new nose
Associated Press – At the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, workers are preparing to transplant the nose of a retiring submarine – the USS Honolulu – onto the USS San Francisco, which was damaged when it ran into an undersea mountain in 2005.
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Terrorism – After Londonistan
New York Times Magazine – In the year since the July 7 bus and subway terror attacks, Tony Blairís government has tried a combination of hard power (expanding the role of the police) and soft power (reaching out to local Muslim leaders) to prevent a next time. But the more that officials learn, the scarier things seem.
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Indian Navy – India in the Indian Ocean
US Naval War College Review – India has strengthened its position on the Indian Oceanís littoral and among the oceanís island nations. India also has become a more palpable presence in key maritime zones; its links with the most important external actors also have been strengthened. These are significant achievements, and they derive from Indiaís growing economic clout, maritime strength, and a surer hand in diplomacy. As this process unfolds further, it will have a transforming effect on the Indian Ocean basin and, eventually, the world.
US Marines – Getting It All Down: Marine Field Historians in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Leatherneck – Marine reservists play an essential role in making and recording the combat history of the Corps.
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Operations Other Than War – Coalition Joint Task Force 635
Marine Corps Gazette – The regional assistance mission to Solomon Islands, Camp Ramsi, Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 22 December 2004ñ25 January 2005.
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US Navy – U.S. Readies System For Missile Detection
Washington Post – The U.S. military yesterday moved ships into position off the coast of North Korea to detect the launch of any long-range ballistic missiles and prepared its new, unproven missile-interception system to attempt a response if necessary.
Two U.S. Navy ships with sensors that could swiftly detect and track a missile’s flight were operating off the North Korean coast yesterday, a Pentagon official said. They are the USS Curtis Wilbur and the USS Fitzgerald, both Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers based at Yokosuka, Japan.
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Royal Navy – Brown backs Trident replacement
BBC – Gordon Brown has signalled that he wants to keep and renew Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent???The Trident missile system and the Vanguard submarines which carry them need replacing by 2024 and a decision is set to be taken in the next year.
Daily Telegraph – Brown in favour of updating Trident.
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US Navy – China watches US Guam maneuvers
Associated Press – As tensions with North Korea rise, three US aircraft carriers filled the skies with fighters Tuesday for one of the largest US military exercises in decades off Guam in the Pacific.
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US Navy – Pulling No Punches in Push for Navy SEALs
Washington Post – The Pentagon is looking to increase the ranks of SEALs without easing their tough training.
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US Navy – Perfect Vision, via Surgery, Is Helping and Hurting Navy
New York Times – Nearly a third of every 1,000-member Naval Academy class now undergoes laser eye surgery, part of a booming trend among military personnel with poor vision. Unlike in the civilian world, where eye surgery is still largely done for convenience or vanity, the procedure’s popularity in the armed forces is transforming career choices and daily life in subtle but far-reaching ways.
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US Navy – At shipyard, Texas marks a new beginning
Virginian Pilot – When the Navy takes possession this week of the USS Texas – second in a new class of stealthy, high-tech submarines – it will be a milestone for both buyer and seller.
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US Navy – In Norfolk, submarine fleet winding down
Virginian Pilot – Even as production ramps up in the Northrup Grumman Newport News shipyard, submarine activity will decline at the Norfolk naval base.
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Afghanistan – Air heads: Misperceptions and rivalries obscure air power's potential
Armed Forces International – William Arkin writes on the role that airpower played, and could have played, in the initial phases of the campaign in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan – U.S. Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks notes as fighting in Afghanistan has intensified over the past three months, the U.S. military has conducted 340 airstrikes there, more than twice the 160 carried out in the much higher-profile war in Iraq, according to data from the Central Command, the U.S. military headquarters for the Middle East.
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Geopolitics / Middle East – A Bitter Prize
Foreign Affairs – Israel occupied and settled the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights because of a combination of nationalism and religious agitation. Ariel Sharon’s dismantling of the Gaza settlements last year broke a political taboo, and could herald a return to “Zionist realism.”
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Royal Navy – EU gaffe could expose the Navy's chart secrets
Daily Telegraph – The European Parliament has accidentally voted through a draft law that could bankrupt the Ordnance Survey and expose secret sea-mapping data that foreign powers could use to track Royal Navy ships.
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History – Once Upon a Time in The Arizona
Leatherneck – The Arizona in Vietnam: scrub brush, tunnels, caves, killers and heroes.
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US Navy – Navy sinks retired destroyers Comte de Grasse and Stump
Virginian Pilot – The Navy sank two of its retired Spruance-class destroyers in a day of surface and air warfare training about 275 miles off the North Carolina coast, sending the largest destroyers ever built to the dark ocean floor 12,000 feet below.
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US Marines – Blood Stripes
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind reviews David Daneloís new book, Blood Stripes, which offers a thoughtful and insightful look into the Iraq war through the eyes of enlisted Marines.
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