Monthly Archives:: January 2007

Editorial Note – Naval Year in Review 2006

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2006 World Naval Operational News Highlights The ten most significant naval news stories / themes this year included: The continued irrelevance of the US Navy to Fourth Generation Warfare. Nearly 4 years after the invasion of Iraq, the US Navy is finally ready to send a brown water / riverine unit to Iraq to patrol [...]

Geopolitics / Long War – Civil Rights, Uncivil Wrongs:The War on Terrorism's Toll on the U.S. Constitution

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Foreign Affairs – Much of the already voluminous commentary on the war on terrorism centers on the question of whether it is a war at all. Here is an analysis of three books that are willing to stipulate, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, that it is. They differ dramatically, however, over what tactics this war [...]

Iraq – General May See Early Success in Iraq

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Washington Post – Thomas Ricks writes that the battle for Baghdad will start in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods chosen by military strategists as being the least likely to offer stiff resistance, raising the odds of early success, according to military planners and officials familiar with the thinking of the incoming Iraq commander, Lt. Gen. David H. [...]

US Marines – From Marine to warlord

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Los Angeles Times – The story of one unusual former US Marine. Hussein Mohammed Aidid, the son of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid who was one of the key players in “Blackhawk Down,” was General Zinni’s Marine interpreter in Somalia at that time???now he wants to be President of Somalia.more…

Geopolitics / Cuba -Fidel's Final Victory

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Foreign Affairs – The smooth transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his successors is exposing the willful ignorance and wishful thinking of U.S. policy toward Cuba. The post-Fidel transition is already well under way, and change in Cuba will come only gradually from here on out. With or without Fidel, renewed U.S. efforts to [...]