Archive for March, 2007

Royal Navy – US rejects Iran captives exchange

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

BBC – US officials have ruled out a deal to exchange 15 Royal Navy personnel captured in the Gulf for five Iranians seized by American forces in Iraq.

Meanwhile, let David Ignatius put this crisis in context for you???

Washington Post15 Britons In a Sea Of Intrigue.
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History – A Very British War

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Daily Telegraph – Patrick Bishop, who sailed 8,000 miles with the Task Force to recapture the Falklands, and is the author of Winter War which I think is one of the best histories of the Falklands War, describes the highs and lows of the campaign against the Argentines, and explains how victory transformed the national mood and ushered in the brash new Thatcher era.
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US Marines – Marines Use Wrong Rules

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

StrategyPage – In an unusual move, the commander of U.S. special operations troops in the region, ordered a unit of 120 U.S. Marines out of Afghanistan on March 23rd. This was because of the way the marines handled a March 4th incident where they were ambushed by a suicide car bomber and gunfire.
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US Navy – U.S. Opens Naval Exercise in Persian Gulf

Friday, March 30th, 2007

New York Times – More on the US wargames in the Gulf.
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US Navy – Navy Lacks Plan to Defend Against ‘Sizzler’ Missile

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Bloomberg – The U.S. Navy, after nearly six years of warnings from Pentagon testers, still lacks a plan for defending aircraft carriers against a supersonic Russian-built missile, according to current and former officials and Defense Department documents.
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Royal Navy – Iran TV shows seized UK navy crew

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

BBC – Iranian state television has broadcast an interview with captured British sailor Faye Turney and footage of the 14 servicemen seized with her.
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US Navy – US Navy starts war games in Gulf

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

BBC – The US Navy has begun its most extensive manoeuvres in the Gulf region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but denies sabre-rattling aimed at Iran.
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Royal Navy – UK in ‘discreet talks’ with Iran

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

BBC – The UK government is attempting to “discreetly” talk to the Iranians to secure the release of 15 Royal Navy personnel.
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Royal Navy – Seized sailors ‘held in Tehran’

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

BBC – The 15 Royal Navy personnel who were seized on Friday are being held at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps base in Tehran.
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Ground Warfare – The Women’s War

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

New York Times Magazine – Many female soldiers have lived through the terrible violence of the war in Iraq. Others have experienced sexual assault – or worse, a combination of the two. They have found themselves struggling to cope with their lives.
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Nuclear Warfare – The Unthinkable

Monday, March 26th, 2007

New Yorker – Can the United States be made safe from nuclear terrorism?
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday March 27

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

NOSI is taking a spring break and will next update on Tuesday March 27. See you then!
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Royal Marines – Talking, waiting, joking, killing . . . ten days in the Taleban’s sights

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

The Times – As Nato begins its biggest offensive in the country since 2001, two Times journalists report from a risky mission into the insurgentsí heartland in lawless Helmand province. The Royal Marines of J Company, 42 Commando, sometimes sat down with local Pashtuns and sometimes skirmished. Then they fought them in pitched battle.
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Ground Warfare – Iraq’s Mercenary King

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Vanity Fair – As a former C.I.A. agent, the author Robert Baer knows how mercenaries work: in the shadows. But how did a notorious former British officer, Tim Spicer, come to coordinate the second-largest army in Iraq – the tens of thousands of private security contractors?
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Intelligence – A Swedish Lesson

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Defense and the National Interest – An interesting essay from William Lind on what military intelligence *should* be – “a correction from below.”
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Ground Warfare – Be More Than You Can Be

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Wired – Heat-resistant. Cold-proof. Tireless. Tomorrowís soldiers are just like todayís – only better. Inside the Pentagonís human enhancement project.
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Non Lethal Weapons – Marines Want Pain Ray, ASAP

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Wired – The Pentagon says its millimeter-wave pain ray won’t be ready until 2010, despite years and years of tests. Marines in Iraq can’t wait that long. They want the weapon — which uses invisible waves to heat up the top layer of the skin and cause a whole lot of hurt — ASAP
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Iraq – No U.S. Backup Strategy For Iraq

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Washington Post – Thomas Ricks says eager to appear resolute and reluctant to provide fodder for skeptics, U.S. officials rebuff questions about failure with a mix of optimism and evasion.
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Miscellaneous – At the Pentagon, Gates Seen as Liberator

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Washington Post – Meet the new boss, not like the old boss — according to Thomas Ricks.
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US Marines – Marines Open Fire After Afghan Ambush

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Washington Post – At least eight Afghan civilians were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan when U.S. Marines traveling in a convoy were hit by a car bomb and responded by firing in a way that some witnesses called reckless.
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