CNN – The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight. BBC – Pirates ‘overpowered’ off Somalia. Virginian Pilot – Norfolk-based ships respond to pirate attacks on vessels.more…
Monthly Archives:: October 2007
US Navy – U.S. destroyer pursuing hijacked ship in Somali waters
CNN – A U.S. destroyer has entered Somali territorial waters in pursuit of a Japanese-owned ship loaded with benzene that was hijacked by pirates over the weekend, military officials said Monday.more…
Fourth Generation Warfare – After smart weapons, smart soldiers
Economist – Irregular warfare may keep Western armies busy for decades. They will have to adapt if they are to overcome the odds that history suggests they are up against.more…
Transformation – Brains, not bullets
Economist – Western armies are good at destroying things. Can they be made better at building them? more…
Royal Navy – Royal Navy disaster relief exercise of cruise in S. Atlantic
MercoPress – Battling her way through 800 miles of ferocious seas between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the Royal Navy Atlantic South patrol and an auxiliary vessel carried out this month a disaster relief exercise based around a typical South Atlantic cruise vessel visiting South Georgia and which supposedly had ran aground in deteriorating [...]
US Navy – Seven New Carriers (Maybe)
Air Force – The Navy plans to build many more flattops, and they wonít be “Gary Hart carriers.”more…
Fourth Generation Warfare – David Kilcullen
Charlie Rose – An hour interview with Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen. more…
US Navy – Navy relieves officer of command of nuclear submarine
Associated Press – Cmdr. Michael B. Portland of the submarine USS Hampton was relieved of duty after a U.S. Navy investigation found the ship failed to do daily safety checks on its nuclear reactor for a month and falsified records to cover up the omission.more…
US Marines – Out of the Frying PanÖ
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind analyses the Marines’ proposal to focus their operations in Afghanistan.more…
US Navy – New Maritime Strategy to Focus on 'Soft Power'
Associated Press – The Navyís mainstay Arleigh Burke destroyers are subject to structural damage under higher-than-anticipated loads in rough seas, necessitating nearly $60 million in upgrades for the entire class of ships.more…
Iraq – Colonel H.R. McMaster
Mother Jones – Colonel H.R. McMaster on the current state of affairs in Iraq.more…
Iraq – Lt. Colonel John Nagl
Mother Jones – An interview with Lt. Col. John Nagl on Iraq.more…
US Coast Guard – New task for U.S. Coast Guard in Arctic's warming seas
New York Times – For most of human history, the Arctic Ocean has been an ice-locked frontier. But now, in one of the most concrete signs of the effect of a warming climate on government operations, the U.S. Coast Guard is planning its first operating base there as a way of dealing with the cruise [...]
Iraq – General Anthony Zinni
Mother Jones – An interview with General Zinni on the current state of affairs in Iraq.more…
Geopolitics / United States – The Next Five States
Esquire – Thomas P.M. Barnett asks: In the lives of men and nations, either you are growing or you’re dying. In our time, the Soviet Union imploded, China is adding back lost colonies, and Europe is now the European Union. So why did the United States stop growing? And what will our next five states [...]
French Navy – Aboard the Tonnerre, Again
Defense Technology International – Another look at life aboard Tonnerre, France’s new b‚timents de protection et de commandement.more…
French Navy – Tonnerre HLD Proves Large Naval HQ Can Be Embarked
Defense Technology International – NATO’s Noble Midas major naval exercise in the Adriatic sea ended on 16th October and, according to Commodore Alain Hinden of the French navy who commanded the 9,400 people and 50 ships (of which just one, the submarine USS Annapolis, was from the US Navy) which took part, it all ìwent [...]
Royal Navy – Tearing Your Hair Out
Aviation Week – Top leaders of Britain’s Royal Navy are “tearing their hair out” in frustration that they can’t “get the message across” that the maritime service is playing a crucial role in ongoing, seemingly land-locked operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.more…
US Navy – New Maritime Strategy to Focus on 'Soft Power'
Washington Post – The U.S. military unveiled a new maritime strategy today — its first created jointly by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard — shifting from a narrow focus on sea combat toward one that also emphasizes the use of “soft power” to counter terrorism and deliver humanitarian assistance.more…
Polish Navy – Goodbye to Poland's Tarantul Missile Craft
Aviation Week – The Polish navy is decommissioning its two Russian-built Tarantul-class fast attack craft in 2008, the commander of the service’s fast patrol boat squadron has told an international naval conference.more…
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