Monthly Archives:: August 2007

Intelligence – Virtual Earth image reveals Trident sub's secret propeller

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Navy Times – This month, a photograph appeared on the Internet of the propeller on an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine at Trident Submarine Base in Bangor. A key to the submarine’s ability to deploy and remain undetected, propeller designs have been kept under wraps for years, literally. When out of the water, the propellers typically [...]

US Navy – Carrier-based Herks?

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Aviation Week – The Office of Naval Research has been funding designs for a Heavy Air Lift Seabasing Ship (HALSS) – a monster high-speed trimaran with hangars on its Nimitz-sized deck for six C-130J transports.more…

Geopolitics / Religion – The Politics of God

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New York Times Magazine – After centuries of strife, the West has learned to separate religion and politics – to establish the legitimacy of its leaders without referring to divine command. There is little reason to expect that the rest of the world – the Islamic world in particular – will follow.more…

Fourth Generation Warfare – The Coming Urban Terror

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City Journal – John Robb nicely summarizes his work on Global Guerrilas in this essay where he notes that for the first time in history, a majority of the worldís population is living in urban environments. Cities – efficient hubs connecting international flows of people, energy, communications, and capital – are thriving in our global [...]

Chinese Navy – Chinese navy starts long march

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UPI – China is bent on the simultaneous development of both an aircraft carrier and a strategic nuclear submarine, or SSBN. Discussions over which should take priority are over, as a higher military budget allocation has accelerated the Peopleís Liberation Army navyís ambitious plan. more…

Intelligence – Overhauling Intelligence

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Foreign Affairs – Sixty years ago, the National Security Act created a U.S. intelligence infrastructure that would help win the Cold War. But on 9/11, the need to reform that system became painfully clear. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is now spearheading efforts to enable the intelligence community to better shield the [...]

Information Warfare – Arab Media and the Battle for Ideas

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First Monday – David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla, authors of Netwar, write: As the information age deepens, a globe-circling realm of the mind is being created – the ìnoosphereî that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin identified 80 years ago. This will increasingly affect the nature of grand strategy and diplomacy. Traditional realpolitik, which ultimately relies on [...]