Washington Post – The Marines’ side of the story, of what happened at Haditha, told through their lawyers.
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Iraq – Good Execution Can Compensate for Bad Policy: How the Generals are losing Iraq
Center for Defense Information – An interesting analysis of the current situation in Iraq by Douglas Macgregor. (PDF format)
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Iraq – Why we lost in Iraq
Defense and the National Interest – An interesting analysis by Chet Richards on the situation in Iraq. (PDF format)
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Royal Navy – Naval base has 19 warships in mothballs and just 16 on active service
Daily Telegraph – For the first time since the 1982 Falklands conflict the number of warships at Portsmouth naval base on active service has dropped below the number decommissioned and awaiting disposal.
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Air Warfare – Toward A New Laser Era
Air Force – A look at the US Air Force’s current work towards airborne laser weapons.
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Monday June 12
NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Monday June 12th – see you then!
Chinese Navy – China's Maturing Navy
US Naval War College Review – A new and much more capable Chinese navy, especially its submarine force, is being acquired and deployed. It is not yet mature, but its rapid and impressive modernization is making it a navy that is arguably the only one that the U.S. Navy must deter or be able to defeatóunless, under other circumstances, it becomes a high-seas partner.
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US Marines – War Among the Rocks
Leatherneck – Heroes step forward in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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US Navy – Iwo Jima shifts from Katrina to Iraq in new deployment
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group deploys.
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Military Space – Space and Counterspace
Air Force – Space superiority cannot be taken for granted, so the Air Force is making plans to defend it.
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Chinese Navy – The Perils of Threat Inflation
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the Defense Departmentís annual report to Congress, Military Power of the Peopleís Republic of China, 2006.
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US Marines – Conflicting Accounts Of Haditha Killings
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports that inconsistencies in Marine Corps version of the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians has given rise to one of the potentially most damaging events of Iraq war.
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Geopolitics – The Proliferation Security Initiative
US Naval War College Review – The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched in 2003, is an international effort to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states and terrorists. With sixteen core member states and some sixty cooperating nations, it enjoys today many advantages of law and organization in coastal waters, but it lacks useful authority to interdict WMD on the high seas. PSI itself, however, represents an opportunity to alter international law and fill that critical gap.
US Marines – After Haditha, New Look At Training
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks reports that the U.S. military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately scrutinize reports that should have caught their attention.
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