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Monthly Archives:: July 2006
Geopolitics / India – The India Model
Foreign Affairs – After being shackled by the government for decades, India’s economy has become one of the world’s strongest. The country’s unique development model — relying on domestic consumption and high-tech services — has brought a quarter century of record growth despite an incompetent and heavy-handed state. But for that growth to continue, the [...]
US Marines – Punching Above Your Weight
Marine Corps Gazette – MEU Service Support Group 31 in the battle for Fallujah.more…
Iraq – From Algeria to Iraq
Marine Corps Gazette – Thoughts on the applicability of the French colonial experience in Algeria to fighting Islamic insurgencies. more…
US Navy – Navy's use of big carriers again being questioned
Virginian Pilot – A retired admiral and an obscure congressman, U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, have rekindled one of the oldest debates in the U.S. military, questioning the Navyís reliance on large aircraft carriers. more…
Iraq – 'It Looked Weird and Felt Wrong'
Washington Post – The second excerpt from Thomas Ricks’ new book on Iraq entitled “Fiasco” looks closely at the actions of the Fourth Infantry Division during the occupation and the negative consequences they had.more…
Iraq – In Iraq, Military Forgot the Lessons of Vietnam
Washington Post – In this excerpt from his new book Fiasco, Thomas Ricks says that the real war in Iraq — the one to determine the future of the country — began on Aug. 7, 2003, when a car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy, killing 11 and wounding more than 50. That bombing came [...]
Information Warfare – Cyber-Mobilization: The New LevÈe en Masse
Parameters – The means and ends of mass mobilization are changing, bypassing the traditional state-centered approach that was the hallmark of the French Revolution and leaving advanced Western democracies merely to react to the results. Todayís dynamic social, economic, and political transitions are as important to war as were the changes at the end of [...]
US Marines – Norfolk-based ship Nashville ferries evacuees from Lebanon
Virginian Pilot – More than 1,000 American citizens were plucked off a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, by landing craft Thursday and transported out to sea and the safety of the Norfolk-based amphibious transport dock Nashville.more…
History – Sinking Ships
Air Force – Contrary to popular belief, land-based airpower played the key role in decimating Japanís World War II shipping.more…
Israeli Navy – Hezbollah's unexpected firepower
New York Times – U.S. and Israeli officials said the successful attack last Friday on an Israeli naval vessel was the strongest evidence to date of direct support by Iran to Hezbollah. The attack was carried out with a sophisticated anti-ship cruise missile, the C-802, an Iranian-made variant of the Chinese Silkworm. StrategyPage – Chinese [...]
Iran – Last Stand
New Yorker – Seymour Hersch on the militaryís dissent on Iran policy.more…
Iran – Steve James and Sgt. Zack Bazzi: Producer & Editor of "The War Tapes"
Q and A – Transcript of a program in which Steve James & Sgt. Zack Bazzi discuss “The War Tapes.” This is a documentary featuring three New Hampshire National Guardsmen who were given cameras to record their year deployment in Iraq. It is an excellent cinema verite look at the war in Iraq through the [...]
US Navy – More Norfolk ships aid in evacuation of Lebanon
Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group, currently operating in the Red Sea, was ordered today to assist in the evacuation of American citizens from Lebanon. more…
Royal Navy – Briton's broadside as Beirut evacuation finally begins
Daily Telegraph – If the first Britons to be evacuated from Lebanon by sea were meant to be grateful for the efforts of the Government then nobody told 30-year-old Maya Kaaki.more…
Fourth Generation Warfare – The Book on Bad Apples
US News and World Report – More on the US Army and US Marines new manual on counterinsurgency.more…
US Navy – U.S. sending help to evacuate Americans from Lebanon
CNN – The U.S. military is positioning Navy and Marine vessels in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, while the State Department charters airliners and a cruise ship to help in the evacuation of Americans trapped by the conflict in Lebanon. Virginian Pilot – Norfolk-based ship to help evacuate Americans from Lebanon.more…
Royal Navy – Britons preparing to flee Lebanon
BBC – The Royal Navy begins assisting evacuations off of Lebanon.more…
Iraq – Two Signposts
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind notes two significant signposts in Iraq.more…
Fourth Generation Warfare – What US wants in its troops: cultural savvy
Christian Science Monitor – Another example of how the US military is trying to adapt for Fourth Generation Warfare.more…
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