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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Geopolitics / Bangladesh – Waterworld
The Atlantic – Robert Kaplan writes that with rising Islamic fundamentalism, weak government, and not enough dry land for its 150 million people, Bangladesh could use a break. Instead, it must face the catastrophic threat of climate change.
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Chinese Navy – Chinese Submarine Fleet Is Growing, Analysts Say
New York Times – Several recent events, from an eagle-eyed spotting of an image on Google Earth to an overt military delivery from Russia, suggest that China is continuing its rapid expansion of a submarine fleet that would be particularly useful in a conflict with the United States over Taiwan.
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US Marines – Ready to Kill
Washington Post – AH-1 Super Cobra pilot Katie Horner has blasted the enemy with missiles and a three-barrel 20mm turreted cannon. Being a woman hasn’t made her any less lethal.
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Iraq – Zinni Critiques War on Terror, Iraq Strategy
Harvard Independent – General Zinni on The Long War: “I give us an A+ on tactics, I give us a C maybe operationally dealing with it, and I would give us an F strategically in how we deal with al-Qaida and think about terrorism.”
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Afghanistan – Battle Company Is Out There
New York Times Magazine – The counterinsurgency in Afghanistanís Korengal Valley is one day after another of difficult decisions and bloody consequences. Hearts and minds are hardening.
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US Navy – The sailor's pitch: Join the Navy and assist the world
Virginian Pilot – As the Army struggles to meet monthly recruiting goals, awarding huge cash bonuses and lowering educational standards, Navy recruiters say they might have found a powerful and distinctive sales pitch for the sea service.
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Taiwanese Navy – Boom and bust
Armed Forces Journal – The strengths and weaknesses of Taiwanís defense strategy emerge.
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US Navy – Missile defence works, says Gates
BBC – The US defence secretary has said that the shooting down of a disabled spy satellite with a missile shows the country’s missile defence system works.
Washington Post – Spy Satellite’s Downing Shows a New U.S. Weapon Capability.
CNN – Pentagon confident satellite’s toxic fuel destroyed.
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US Marines – The story of 'Task Force Violence'
Marine Corps Times – Sean Naylor on the actions of Marine Special Operations Company Fox in Afghanistan.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Expert on counterinsurgency leaves the military with battle plan for the future
Kansas City Star – An interview with LTC John Nagl.
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US Navy – Navy to shoot down failed satellite Thursday
CNN – The U.S. Navy will likely attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite Thursday, the day after the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land
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Editorial Note – NOSI on break until Tuesday February 19th
NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Tuesday February 19th. See you then!
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US Navy – US plans to shoot down satellite
BBC – The US Navy is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite due to crash land on Earth in the next few weeks.
Air Warfare – Rise of the Reaper
Air Force – Some call it ìPredator on steroids,î but that doesnít begin to describe this new aircraft.
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Russian Navy – Navy intercepts Russian bombers in western Pacific
Associated Press – U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend. One Russian Tupolev 95 flew directly over the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz twice, at a low altitude of about 2,000 feet, while another bomber circled about 58 miles out.
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Iraq – Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
New York Times – The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret.
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US Navy – The New Line in the Pacific
Air Force – The American emphasis will be on air and sea power, with fewer boots on the ground.
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Miscellaneous – The Professional
New York Times – Defense Secretary Robert Gates is the anti-Rumsfeld: cautious, courteous and conciliatory. But will that be enough to bring Washington together on Iraq and Iran?
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Geopolitics / China – The $1.4 Trillion Question
The Atlantic – James Fallows writes that the Chinese are subsidizing the American way of life. Are we playing them for suckers – or are they playing us?
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Transformation – Robot glider harvests ocean heat
BBC – A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the ocean has been tested by US scientists.
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Operations Other Than War – After Hard-Won Lessons, Army Doctrine Revised
New York Times – Michael Gordon writes about a new operations manual that elevates the stabilization of war-torn nations to the same importance as the defeat of enemies on the battlefield.
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Nuclear Warfare – A Strike in the Dark
New Yorker – Seymour Hersh on why did Israel bomb Syria?
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Columbian Navy – Drug Traffic Beneath the Waves
Washington Post – In the annals of the drug trade, traffickers have swallowed cocaine pellets, dissolved the powder into ceramics and flown the drug as far as Africa on flimsy planes — anything to elude detection and get a lucrative product to market. Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine.
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US Navy – Navy ordered to establish sonar-free zones to protect whales, dolphins
San Francisco Chronicle – For the second time this week, a federal court found today that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatened to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and ordered protective measures in several sensitive zones, including one near Monterey Bay.
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