Foreign Affairs – Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. But in fact, it corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, it is galvanized by modernization, and in one form or another, it will drive global politics for generations to come. Once ethnic nationalism has captured the imagination of groups in a multiethnic society, ethnic disaggregation or partition is often the least bad answer.
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
US Navy – GW leaves for new base in Japan on Monday
Virginian Pilot – The aircraft carrier George Washington, with a crew of about 3,200, is slated to depart Monday en route to its new home base in Yokosuka, Japan, where it will replace the Kitty Hawk as the United Statesí only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier.
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US Navy – Carried Away
Armed Forces Journal – A challenge to the US Navy to align its old-style, carrier-heavy procurement strategy with the new maritime strategy.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – A Battalion's Worth of Good Ideas
New York Times – John Nagl on the crucial importance of the small group of American military advisers who live and fight alongside foreign forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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US Navy – Future of Mayport Naval Station remains uncertain
Virginian Pilot – The Navy could spend nearly $500 million to ready Mayport Naval Station in Florida for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – perhaps from Norfolk – by 2014???Or it could choose to make no changes in the base’s operations.
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US Navy – DOJ Asks High Court Review on Navy Sonar
Associated Press – The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision limiting the Navy’s use of sonar off the Southern California coast because of potential harm to dolphins and whales.
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