Defense Technology International – Some details about France’s new naval base at the port of Fujaira on the eastern seaboard of the UAE, which was opened very discreetly recently by the French navy.
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
US Navy – U.S. Supreme Court hears case over sonar's effect on whales
Virginian Pilot – The Supreme Court Wednesday took up the dispute over whether the Navy’s use of sonar off San Diego is harming whales.
New York Times – Court Weighs Concerns on Whales and Military
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Afghanistan – A Manhunt or a Vital War?
New York Times – Robert D. Kaplan on why Afghanistan is more than a manhunt, and how it does matter, for reasons that have not been fully fleshed out by policy makers or the military.
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US Navy – Fire on carrier GW was 'entirely preventable'
Virginian Pilot – The May fire aboard the carrier George Washington that injured 37 sailors, caused $70 million in damage and delayed the shipís forward deployment to Japan was ìentirely preventable,î according to the Pacific Fleet commander in a final report made public Friday.
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Piracy – Somali pirates stare down global superpowers
Associated Press – With a Russian frigate closing in and a half-dozen U.S. warships within shouting distance, the pirates holding a tanker off Somalia’s coast might appear to have no other choice than to wave the white flag. But that’s not how it works in Somalia, a failed state where a quarter of all children die before they turn five, where anybody with a gun controls the streets and where every public institution has crumbled???
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Russian Navy – Russia's warships head for exercise with Venezuelan navy
The Times – Russia displayed its military strength in the Mediterranean yesterday after warships heading to Venezuela passed through the Strait of Gibraltar in the second deployment of Russian naval vessels in the waterway since the Cold War.
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US Marines – Marines reassess equipment needs for Afghanista
Associated Press – High altitudes, dispersed battalions and restricted travel zones are among the serious challenges facing the Marines as it weighs the resources needed to perform its missions in Afghanistan where violence has escalated.
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Royal Navy – Cash strapped Navy cuts destroyer fleet
Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy has mothballed almost half of its remaining fleet of destroyers as it desperately attempts to save money in the face of a plunging budget.
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Russian Navy – Russia to build eight nuclear submarines
Daily Telegraph – Russia is to build eight nuclear submarines by 2015 as part of an ambitious plan to overhaul the country’s ailing navy.
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US Marines – Digital Bullets for the Marines
Defense Technology International – The heart of future joint aviation plans pivots on where the services go with electronic attack and other network centric attack. A relatively small $125 million contract to Northrop Grumman may signal the direction of the shake out. It has landed a contract to build Lot 4 of its ICAP III airborne electronic attack systems for the U.S. Marine Corpsí growing fleet of EA-6B Prowlers.
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Port Security – To make sea traffic transparent
Scripps Howard – Thomas P.M. Barnett writes that one of the main problems in counterterrorism today is that there are so many people and vehicles, and so much data and material, moving through globalization’s myriad networks that it seems virtually impossible to track it all effectively. Nowhere has this problem been more acute than on the high seas.
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