Economist – After a dreadful year in Afghanistan, a newly confident NATO is preparing itself to take on the Taliban. Success will be difficult, but not impossible.more…
Monthly Archives:: February 2007
Transformation – New Sub Dives Crushing Depths
Wired – Scientists at the University of Washington have developed an autonomous underwater vehicle that can stay out to sea for up to a year and dive to depths of nearly 9,000 feet — nearly three times deeper than the deepest-diving military submarines.more…
Nuclear Warfare – The Stuff Sam Nunn's Nightmares Are Made Of
New York Times Magazine – Can the head of the Nuclear Threat Initiative do more now to curtail uranium smugglers, loose nukes and the proliferation of nuclear states than he could as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee?more…
Piracy – Pirates seize UN ship off Somalia
BBC – Pirates are reported to have hijacked a UN-chartered cargo ship delivering food aid to north-eastern Somalia.more…
Royal Navy – Stand-off in Gulf with Iran 'a bit like Cold War'
Daily Telegraph – Britain’s most senior naval officer in the Gulf has likened the West’s tense stand-off with Iran as being akin to “the height of the Cold War”.more…
History – The Greely Relief Expedition and the New Navy
International Journal of Naval History – On July 10, 1881, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely sailed north in command of a small polar expedition. After making an unexpectedly easy passage,the expedition settled into a well-supplied base they named Fort Conger and began their mission of scientific exploration and astronomical observation. After that, everything [...]
US Navy – American armada prepares to take on Iran
Daily Telegraph – Aboard the USS Dwight D Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf.more…
US Navy – Carrier John F. Kennedy stops in Norfolk for last time
Virginian Pilot – The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy is visiting Norfolk this week before heading to Boston for its final port.more…
US Marines – Marines fighting to win hearts and minds
Los Angeles Times – In contrast to the security crackdown in Baghdad, most Marines in Iraq’s western desert are engaged in nation-building, the kind of venture President Bush had publicly disdained, most notably during the 2000 presidential campaign.more…
Transformation – Darpa Chief Speaks
Wired – An interview with Tony Tether who has headed up the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, Darpa, since 2001. That makes him the longest-serving director in the agency’s nearly 50-year history.more…
Ground Warfare – Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
Washington Post – An interesting look at what happens to wounded Soldiers and Marines who get their care at Walter Reed. Washington Post – The Hotel Aftermath.more…
Iran – US 'Iran attack plans' revealed
BBC – US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure.more…
US Navy – U.S. ships move to protect Persian Gulf's oil shipments
Virginian Pilot – Despite their differences in size and weaponry, the USS Firebolt and the USS Stennis share a stated mission: Deter the Iranian Navy from hostile acts in an area vital to oil shipments by showing the Tehran regime that U.S. military strength remains formidable despite its entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan.more…
Afghanistan – On patrol with the Marines in Afghanistan
Daily Telegraph – British forces in Afghanistan have been fighting the Taliban at the strategic Kajaki dam this week. Film-maker Chris Terrill is spending a year with the Royal Marines and has just returned. Here, in a powerful dispatch, he tells how the soldiers, including one since killed in action, engaged the enemymore…
Royal Navy – First Sea Lord in threat to quit over cuts
Daily Telegraph – The First Sea Lord yesterday made veiled threats that he would resign from his post if the Government failed to deliver a Fleet that would be “serious player” on the High Seas.more…
Afghanistan – Conversations with the general
The Economist – The Economist’s defense correspondent visits British troops, including Royal Marines, in Afghanistan.more…
US Marines – Marine Advisors
Marine Corps Gazette – Can more be done to prepare them?more…
Royal Marines – It's dawn, and the shelling starts. Time to go into the Taleban maze
The Times – The Marines need to set up a secure zone for civilian workers. First they must defeat an elusive enemy that wages a hit-and-run campaign from its labyrinthine mud compounds. Anthony Loyd and Richard Mills of The Times joined 200 Royal Marines in an operation to secure a dam site in Afghanistanmore…
US Navy – US Navy to use dolphins for security
Daily Telegraph – The US Navy wants to bolster security by deploying dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and intercept waterborne attackers. Associated Press – Navy plan would put dolphins on underwater patrol.more…
Iraq – Monks of War
Esquire – If official Washington has trouble learning from its mistakes, the generals fighting the war in Iraq have no such luxury. And there are many lessons to learn. Thomas P.M. Barnett provides us with an interesting look at the generals???more…
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