- Virginian Pilot – Three Navy amphibious ships that left Norfolk ahead of schedule in March are set to stay at sea into February, which would make their cruise the longest ship deployment in decades.
Monthly Archives:: November 2011
Chinese Navy – China navy to carry out Pacific exercises
- BBC – China’s navy will carry out exercises in the Pacific Ocean in the coming days, amid continuing tension over maritime disputes in the region.
Terrorism – Years of detective work led to al-Qaida target
- Army Times – Fourth in a series by Sean Naylor. Often-frustrating search for Harun Fazul combined high-tech gear, low tech human intelligence and courage
Russian Navy – US carrier strike force enters Syrian waters. Russian carrier en route
- DEBKAfile – The Syrian crisis aassumed a big power dimension this week with the build-up of rival United States and Russia naval air carrier armadas in Syrian waters. The USS George H.W. Bush arrived Wednesday, Nov. 23, in the wake of the three Russian warships anchored earlier opposite Tartus which established a command post [...]
Information Warfare – Hackers 'hit' US water treatment systems
- BBC – Hackers are alleged to have destroyed a pump used to pipe water to thousands of homes in a US city in Illinois.
Israeli Navy – Israel beware: China arms Hezbollah
- Washington Times – A look at the attack, during the Second Lebanon War, of a Chinese-produced, Hezbollah-fired C-802 anti-ship missile that struck Israel’s INS Hanit off the Lebanon coast.
US Marines – Marines won’t fly Brit Harriers
- Marine Times – An official announcement could come within days of Britain’s sale of its remaining Harrier jump jets to the Marine Corps, but sources are saying privately the purchase will be strictly for spare parts and logistic support, and not a move to increase the operational fleet.
Phillipine Navy – US assures Manila of 2nd warship amid Spratlys row
- Associated Press – The United States will provide a second warship to the ill-equipped Philippine military as it confronts China in increasingly tense territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
Geopolitics / Asia – We’re back
- Economist – America reaches a pivot point in Asia.
Terrorism – Clandestine Somalia missions yield AQ targets
- Army Times – The third in a series by Sean Naylor looking at U.S. military operations in the Horn of Africa after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Terrorism – Lack of human intel hampered AQ hunt in Africa
- Army Times – The second in a series by Sean Naylor looking at U.S. military activity in the Horn of Africa.
Terrorism – The Secret War: How U.S. hunted AQ in Africa
- Army Times – First of a series by Sean Naylor. Clandestine SEAL mission planted cameras, but little came out of the images.
US Marines – US military to buy Britain's scrapped fleet of Harrier jets
- Daily Telegraph – The US military has agreed to buy Britain’s entire fleet of Harrier jump jets after they were controversially scrapped under the Government’s austerity measures.
US Marines – Australia agrees US Marine deployment plan
- BBC – Australia has agreed to host a full US Marine task force in the coming years, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced at a news conference with US President Barack Obama in Canberra. More information at the New York Times
Information Warfare – From Russia With Jam
- Defense Technology International – Moscow-based Aviaconversiya Ltd., makes and sells GPS jammers…to anyone who wants to buy them, no questions asked.
US Navy – Toilet troubles add to sailors' deployment stress on carrier
- Virginian Pilot – It may seem like a trivial inconvenience in the scheme of things, but it’s become routine enough that some sailors aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush say it’s affecting their morale, their health and their job performance: Since the ship left for its maiden combat deployment in May, its [...]
US Navy – AirSea Battle’s Turbulent Year
- Air Force – The anti-access, area-denial threat, vast distances in the western Pacific, and unrelenting budget pressures have forced the largest push for USAF and naval integration since the end of the Cold War.
German Navy – Early Retirement For German Navy Patrol Boats And Minehunters
- Defense Technology International – The German navy has decided to retire early the Type 143A fast patrol boats (FPBs) Nerz and Dachs and the Type 333 minehunters Kulmbach and Laboe on 31 March 2012.
Afghanistan – Echoes from a Distant Battlefield
- Vanity Fair – When First Lieutenant Jonathan Brostrom was killed by Taliban fighters in 2008, while attempting a heroic rescue in a perilously isolated outpost, his war was over. His father’s war, to hold the U.S. Army accountable for Brostrom’s death, had just begun. And Lieutenant Colonel William Ostlund’s war—to defend his own record [...]
US Navy – General Atomics to help Navy create 'super gun'
- San Diego Union Tribune – The award is part of a long term effort to create a ship-borne gun that uses electricity instead of chemicals to fire high impact projectiles. The railgun being developed through the Office of Naval Research was designed to fire projectiles up to 200 miles. The projectiles would travel up [...]
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