Defense Technology International – Australia’s Chief of Navy warns that “enormous strategic change” taking place at the moment will have major implications for the maritime forces of Australia and its allies.more…
Monthly Archives:: January 2008
Geopolitics – Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
New York Times Magazine – Just a few years ago, Americaís hold on global power seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while weíve been in Iraq ó and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a ë”second [...]
US Navy – Why the Navy needs more ships
Armed Forces Journal – The Navy needs a larger number of ships, not only for winning a war at sea against a stronger opponent but also for carrying out diverse missions in peacetime, ranging from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, security assistance, enforcement of maritime agreements, counterpiracy, vessel traffic service, multinational exercises, countersmuggling and counterdrug, [...]
Information Warfare – The Dogs of Web War
Air Force – US armed forces face “peer” adversaries in only one area – military cyberspace.more…
Iraq – War, Meet the 2008 Campaign
New York Times – Michael Gordon writes that for the past year, he has led a double existence, dividing his time between military reporting assignments in Iraq and tracking the campaign debate in the United States???Those were parallel universes, in which the discussion of the taxing road ahead and potential fall-back options were often so [...]
Geopolitics / Democracy – Slow But Sure
Financial Times – Niall Ferguson writes: Has the democratic wave broken? Is the tide of political freedom now ebbing after the spectacular flow that began in 1989? Recent events on nearly every continent certainly give real cause for concern to those who dream of a world governed by the ballot box rather than the bullet. [...]
US Marines – Guam Braces for Peaceful Military Incursion
Washington Post – People on this faraway island — a U.S. territory 7,824 miles west of Los Angeles — delight in calling Guam the “tip of the spear” for its role defending U.S. interests in the Far East???The Pentagon has chosen Guam, a quirkily American place that marries the beauty of Bali with the banality [...]
US Navy – Lincoln strike group begins sonar exercise
San Diego Union Tribune – Despite legal sparring between the Navy and environmentalists over sonar transmissions off San Diego and other parts of Southern California, a sonar exercise involving the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group began as scheduled yesterday.more…
US Navy – Nimitz strike group embarks on special deployment
San Diego Union Tribune – The Nimitz strike group is filling in for the Japan-based Kitty Hawk while that aircraft carrier undergoes several months of maintenance.more…
US Navy – U.S. military must consider Japan base's impact on marine mammal
San Diego Union Tribune – A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday to consider the impact of a proposed military base in Japan on an endangered marine mammal revered in Japanese culture.more…
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Japan Navy Resumes Anti-Terror Mission
Associated Press – A Japanese navy destroyer departed Thursday to resume the country’s anti-terror mission in the Indian Ocean after a divisive battle in parliament caused a three-month suspension.more…
South Korean Navy – Korean AIP Submarine Now in Service
Defense Technology International – ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), the German naval shipbuilding group, has released photos of the first Type 214 submarine now in service with the Republic of Korea Navy. With the handover of the 1,700-ton submarine, named the Son Won Il, at the end of December South Korea has become the third nation [...]
Russian Navy – RAF alert as Russia stages huge naval exercise in Bay of Biscay
The Times – RAF fighters scrambled to track Russian long-range bombers joining a naval task force yesterday as Moscow practised strike tactics off the coast of France and Spain and test-launched nuclear-capable missiles.more…
French Navy – End of a Class
Defense Technology International – The French navy’s last Le Redoutable class submarine has set sail for the final timemore…
Editorial Note – Naval Year in Review 2007
2007 World Naval Operational News Highlights The ten most significant naval news stories / themes this year included: The US military’s recognition that climate change poses a security threat to the U.S. Most interesting was their recommendation that the U.S. government work to mitigate climate change. The Chinese anti-satellite test which showed that China has [...]
Editorial Note – 2007 Archives Now Available
The NOSI Archive for 2007 is now available here.more…
Military Space – Disharmony in the spheres
Economist – Modern American warfare relies on satellites. They make America powerful but also vulnerable, particularly in light of China’s new celestial assertivenessmore…
Royal Navy – Dive bombers
The Times – They can wipe out entire nations, and the British government plans to build even more. Are the Trident nuclear submarines essential for peacekeeping, or are they just expensive relics of the cold war? We meet the men with their fingers on the trigger. more…
Dutch Navy – Dutch Plan for Their Largest Naval Ship Ever
Defense Technology International – The backbone of a modern, 21st-century navy isn’t its surface combatants or submarines. It is the large amphibious and/or logistic support ships it can deploy to trouble spots around the world, carrying helicopters, hospital facilities, an embarked landing force, supplies, fuel and a suite of C4I facilities. The Netherlands is planning [...]
Geopolitics / Russia – The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Holds Russia Back
Foreign Affairs – A growing conventional wisdom holds that Vladimir Putin’s attack on democracy has brought Russia stability and prosperity — providing a new model of successful market authoritarianism. But the correlation between autocracy and economic growth is spurious. Autocracy’s effects in Russia have in fact been negative. Whatever the gains under Putin, they would [...]
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