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Archive January 2002 - June 2002
South Korean Navy - South Korean and North Korean gunboats fought a pitched battle, resulting in casualties on both sides.
Pakistani Navy - Pakistan would like to become more self-sufficient, in a naval sense.
Pakistani Navy - Pakistan is offering China listening posts on its territory in return for naval protection.
US Marines - How the US Marines will continue to seabase their forces in the future.
US Navy - The Chinese are continuing their harrassment of US surveillance aircraft, including EP-3 and P-3 aircraft.
Royal Marines - 45 Commando is using roving checkpoints in their hunt for Al-Qaida members.
Indian Navy - Will India be purchasing Scorpene-class submarines from France?
US Navy - The US Navy is being criticized for being too conservative in its design of CVN-77.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - The spy ship sunk last year has been found to have been armed.
US Navy - Iraq is moving its oil smuggling operations from tankers to wooden dhows.
Royal Marines - Spanish conspiracy theories about Gibraltar.
Russian Navy - Russia has no freedom of the press, when it comes to reporting naval or environmental news.
US Merchant Marine - How to help the US Merchant Marine survive.
US Coast Guard - The Deepwater contract has been awarded.
US Coast Guard - Why Deepwater is important to the USCG and to the US.
Thai Navy - Thailand may buy two frigates from the UK.
Argentinean Navy - An Argentine icebreaker is heading towards Antarctica to help free a trapped German ship.
Chinese Navy - China would like to buy 8 more Kilo-class submarines from Russia, armed with Klub anti-ship missiles. What China needs next is an over-the-horizon targeting system.
Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Arunta and HMAS Melbourne will soon be taking up station in the Persian Gulf.
Italian Navy - Italy will purchase the Joint Strike Fighter, in its land-based and naval-based versions. The naval versions will presumeably replace its AV-8B Harriers on the Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Indonesia Navy - Indonesia's navy wants to be less political and more professional.
Background - Flags of Convenience - One of the many reasons why flags of convenience are bad.
Background - Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Progress is being made on UAVs the size of flies.
Background - US Bases in the Persian Gulf - How the US is increasing its presence in the Persian Gulf, and in doing so making Saudi Arabia irrelevant to US defense interests.
Royal Marines - Royal Marines on patrol in Afghanistan have discovered another large arms cache.
French Navy - The French frigate L.V. Le Henaff will make a port of call in Ghana.
US Marines - More about the current CARAT exercises in Malaysia.
Russian Navy - The Russian Navy is interceding in a fishing dispute between Norway and Russia.
Background - Iraq - William Arkin on how we need to absorb the lessons of the first Gulf War, as we go about planning the second - we need to be bolder in our thinking and planning. Take the lesson of Engagement Area Thomas, for example...
US Marines - The US and Malaysian armed forces are conducting joint exercises.
US Navy - Military exercises will continue into the forseeable future without pause in the Phillipines with US and Phillipine forces.
Background - Electronic Warfare - Options for replacement of the US Navy's EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft.
Phillipine Navy - Phillipine forces have killed the leader of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist organization at sea.
US Navy - The US looks again to a catamaran design to replace the USS Inchon as a mine warfare command ship.
History - Cuban Missile Crisis - Did Russian submarines almost use nuclear-tipped torpedoes against US ships in 1962?
Royal Marines - 45 Commando is being withdrawn from Afghanistan.
US Navy - The USS George Washington battlegroup deploys.
Canadian Navy - Canada's Sea King helicopters are finally getting self-defense suites.
US Navy - The US Navy has purchased one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
US Marines - An overview of the operational logistics associated with the Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF).
Russian Navy - The Kursk salvage is now over.
Israeli Navy - A senior Israeli defense official states that Israel needs to develop a sea-based deterrent force.
US Navy - Why congressional meddling makes the military procurement system such a mess - the US Navy passes on converting a cruise ship hull to a floating barracks - the USS Pork.
Royal Navy - Her Majesty's Government insists there is no deal to sell HMS Invincible to India.
Chinese Navy - China's two new Sovremenny-class destroyers under construction will be much better armed than their sister ships already in the Chinese Navy.
Canadian Navy - The Victoria-class submarines will not receive air independent propulsion upgrades until 2012, instead of in 2007.
Russian Navy - Another piece of the Kursk's bow has been lifted from the sea.
US Navy - The US is trying to figure out how many sailors it actually needs to operate its ships.
British Merchant Marine - Is the UK not taking prudent precautions in shipping nuclear waste around the world?
Canadian Navy - Another Victoria-class submarine begins sea trials.
US Navy - Naval aviatiors will soon receive new googles designed to protect their eyes from the effects of lasers.
Israeli Navy - Israel denies its submarines are part of its nuclear deterrent.
Argentinian Navy - A Russian research ship is trapped in an iceflow in Anarctica; a South African research ship and an Argentine icebreaker have been dispatched to rescue it.
US Navy - How modern business practices are being used to improve the US Navy.
Pakistani Navy - Pakistan's Navy has been recalled to base.
Background - Submarines - A review of the submarine arms race in South East Asia.
Israeli Navy - More evidence that Israel's 3 attack submarines are armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and therefore are part of its nuclear deterrent.
US Marines - Another installment in the series on how US Marines are made at Parris Island.
US Navy - The USS George Washington battlegroup is about to deploy to relieve the USS John F Kennedy battlegroup.
US Navy - The US again tests a ship-based anti-ballistic missile system - successfully.
Background - Guerilla Warfare - James F. Dunnigan on how to defeat a guerilla insurgency.
Chinese Navy - China will buy more Kilo-class submarines from Russia, meanwhile US Navy officers are helping run Taiwanese war games.
Russian Navy - The Russian Navy is considering the use of seals as underwater rescuers.
Indian Navy - A listing of the Indian ships that were deployed off of Pakistan that have returned to port, the aircraft carrier Viraat was part of the task force.
US Navy - What the SOSUS system is being used for these days...monitoring "biologicals."
French Navy - France has seized a ship thought to be carrying tons of cocaine.
US Marines - How Pakistan has been a valuable ally to the US Marines in their war against terror.
US Navy - Some F-14's have been cleared to return to duty at sea.
Royal Navy - An overview of the threats to shipping in the Straits of Gibraltar.
Indian Navy - The Indian Navy launched a fast patrol vessel.
Indian Navy - India has pulled its ships off the west coast of Pakistan and returned them to base.
Royal Navy - The Royal Navy must be vigilant as its ships pass through the Straits of Gibraltar to prevent terrorist attacks against them.
US Navy - Aboard the USS LaSalle, flagship of the 6th Fleet, in the Mediterranean, as it hunts for criminals and terrorists.
Columbian Navy - Who should own the islands of Providence and San Andres in the western Carribean, which are a key base in the war on drugs - Columbia, Nicaragua, or no one?
US Navy - The US Navy decides to rehabilitate, rather than reject, problem Sailors.
Taiwanese Navy - Could a Northrup - HDW partnership bring submarines to Taiwan? Meanwhile Taiwan considers carving a new submarine base out of a mountain for its submarines.
Royal Navy - al-Queda had plans to attack ships patroling the Straits of Gibraltar.
Royal Australian Navy - Australia and Singapore are conducting exercise Singaroo 702.
US Navy - Thomas Ricks on the new US policy of advocating pre-emptive strikes
Background - Caspian Sea - More on the militarization of the Caspian Sea.
Sri Lankan Navy - Sri Lanka is looking to China to strengthen its navy.
Indian Navy - The Indian Navy is patroling the Gulf of Mannar more carefully.
US Navy - A look at the state-of-the-art in underway replenishment.
Background - Merchant Marine - A new way to secure containers against tampering from terrorists.
Background - War on Terrorism - William Arkin on why we should listen more to our Australian allies in the war on terrorism.
US Navy - The USS Tortuga has run aground during exercises off of North Carolina but has been freed.
Royal Marines - Operation Buzzard continues in Afghanistan.
Indian Navy - The Indian Navy says it is ready to go.
Taiwanese Navy - Is Taiwan producing stealthy missile craft?
Background - East Asia - Why China is paranoid about defense.
US Navy - The wave-piercing catamaran test platform Joint Venture (HSV-X1) is to participate in unidentified military support operations in the US Central Command area of responsibility.
Royal Navy - More reasons why the Sea Harriers are being phased out.
Canadian Navy - Why the conversion of the Upholder-class submarines is so complex and taking so long.
US Navy - An update on the condition of the USS Dolphin.
Taiwanese Navy - Will Taiwan get German 209-class submarines via the US?
Background - Kashmir - Edward Luttwak on why he thinks the Indian Navy will not blockade Karachi's harbor.
Background - Airpower - Part 3 of a series - airpower finally lives up to its promises in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.
Canadian Navy - What life is like aboard Canada's Upholder-class submarines - a cruise aboard HMCS Windsor told in text, audio, and video.
Canadian Navy - All 4 Upholder-class submarines have problems with faulty diesel exhaust valves.
US Navy - F-14 Tomcats are not being allowed to be launched by catapult until their nose wheel assemblies are inspected for corosion.
Royal Marines - The Royal Marines are performing humanitarian duties while patroling in Afghanistan.
Malaysian Navy - Malaysia has formally signed a deal to purchase Scorpene-class submarines from France.
US Navy - An essay by the Chief of Naval Operations on what the US Navy needs to look like in the future.
Russian Navy - More fragments of the Kursk's bow were recovered today.
Thai Navy - More on the border tensions between Thailand and Myanmar.
US Navy - Why the tactical component network (TCN) outperforms the cooperative engagement capability (CEC) - and why CEC will be funded and TCN will not.
Background - Kashmir - William Arkin's analysis of the possibility of nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
Indian Navy - India may acquire HMS Invincible along with her Sea Harriers.
Burmese Navy - Burmese warships are patrolling waters off Song, Lam, Khan and Khinok islands, the site of outstanding border disputes with Thailand.
Nigerian Navy - Nigeria continues its war against oil poachers.
US Marines - Thomas Ricks on how the US Marines first official report on the war in Afghanistan criticizes the US military from leading from the rear - that is, running the war from Central Command's HQ in Tampa, Florida. The Marines argue that the HQ should be in theater.
Background - Information Warfare - James Bamford on whether the NSA is up to the tasks facing it in the war on terrorism.
US Coast Guard - A detailed review of the role the Coast Guard plays in homeland defense.
Royal Marines - A woman is allowed to join the logistic ranks of the Royal Marines, for the first time.
Pakistani Navy - Pakistan's navy says it can defend Pakistan from India's navy.
Russian Navy - The salvage of the Kursk's bow is underway.
Royal Navy - HMS Portland has stopped an Iraqi ship trying to smuggle oil out of Iraq.
Royal Marines - Royal Marines have taken up blocking positions along the Pakistan - Afghanistan border in Operation Buzzard.
US Navy - What the US Navy hopes to get out of next year's budget.
US Marines - The new role of the Marines' reserve division artillery regiment - to be corps-level artillery.
NOSI will take a short break and will publish next on Monday. See you then.
Indian Navy - The strategy behind the Indian Navy's deployment off the port of Karachi - bottle up Pakistan from a naval and economic perspective.
US Navy - US has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to allow the fueling and servicing of its ships and aircraft in Sri Lanka.
US Navy - The USS John Stennis battlegroup returns home, after a tour in the Arabian Sea.
Indian Navy - India expresses interest in purchasing the Royal Navy's Sea Harriers.
US Marines - The Marines are experimenting successfully with the WestPac Express, a high-speed vessel (HSV), used to support the III Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa.
Royal Navy - The new Astute-class nuclear attack submarines will be based at Faslane.
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia will upgrade the engineering plants of a number of its warships, it is also beginning humanitarian relief exercises this week with the US Navy.
Taiwanese Navy - Taiwan is searching for the black boxes from the 747 that crashed off the Straits of Taiwan.
Background - Weapons of Mass Destruction - William Arkin on how the Bush Administration is now fighting Cold War #2 - against weapons of mass destruction.
Background - Nuclear Weapons - A well written essay on what the threat is from nuclear weapons or radiological weapons, with a number of scenarios.
US Navy - WWII - I'll probably start posting a few more history articles as I come across them. Here is an appropriate article for today (Memorial Day in the United States) - a succinct, yet insightful history of the US Navy in World War II. Be sure to read all 5 parts.
US Navy - The story of what happened when a SEAL team insertion went wrong during the early phases of Operation Anaconda. The pitched ground battle that ensued is similar to "Blackhawk Down" - call it "Chinook Down."
Canadian Navy - What Canada's CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft have been up to in the Gulf.
Royal Navy - The Royal Navy's new carriers will be too large to dock at its main base at Portsmouth.
Background - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - James F. Dunnigan with a nice history of UAVs.
Royal Navy - The Royal Navy has been tasked with helping to prevent the flow of illegal immigrants into England.
US Marines - Personal Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are being developed by the Marines.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Shoup, a new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
US Navy - The USS Dolphin has been towed back to port.
US Navy - The information technology involved in building the Joint Strike Fighter.
US Navy - A more detailed explanation of the SEALs restructuring.
Background - William Arkin - A nice description of analyst William Arkin, whose writings I link to regularly. Meet the person behind the opinions.
Background - Iraq - Thomas Ricks on how the Pentagon is lobbying to push back or cancel the invasion of Iraq.
US Navy - Submarine rescue exercise Sorbet Royal 2002 is taking place off of Denmark.
US Navy - More on the fire aboard the USS Dolphin
Royal Marines - The Royal Marines have engaged in their first firefight in Afghanistan.
French Navy - The aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle is exercising with the Saudi Navy.
US Navy - An essay on how the US Navy is transforming itself.
Indian Navy - India is preparing for war with Pakistan over Kashmir, part of the preparation involves shifting 5 naval vessels to its west coast.
US Navy - The research submarine USS Dolphin has caught fire at sea. The crew have been safely evacuated, the sub's fate is uncertain.
Royal Navy - Spare parts for Royal Navy Sea King helicopters are in short supply.
US Navy - The Pentagon wants to make future robots more like biological systems.
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia is stepping up naval patrols to cut down on piracy and clashing amongst fisherman.
Nigerian Navy - ...while the Nigerian Navy is also interceding to break up hostilities amongst fisherman.
Thai Navy - Thailand has fired its first Harpoon surface-to-surface missile.
Royal Marines - Simon Jenkins with a reasonable overview of the Royal Marines' trials and tribulations in Afghanistan.
Editorial Note - New URL for NOSI - Effective immediately, NOSI has a new, shorter, and easier to remember address: http://www.nosi.org.
The old NOSI address (http://nosi.editthispage.com) will continue to work for the forseeable future, and will be the address you will continue to see on your screen. I will warn you when it no longer works. In the meantime, feel free to use and publicise http://www.nosi.org and to update your bookmarks and links.
US Navy - Is Fleet Week in New York City a terrorist target?
Singaporean Navy - Singapore and Thailand are holding a joint naval exercise in the South China Sea.
Canadian Navy - Canada is likely to loose its indigineous warship construction capability.
Canadian Navy - Canada's Sea King helicopters have no useful self-defense capability.
Royal Australian Navy - ...while Australia is unhappy with the 40 year-old SH-2 Seasprite helicopters that it is acquiring.
US Navy - A fascinating behind-the-scenes look by James Fallows at the Joint Strike Fighter competition that explains how Lockheed won the contract from Boeing.
Canadian Navy - Aboard Canada's CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft, on fisheries patrol.
Royal Marines - John Keegan on the sad fate of the Royal Marine's commander in Afghanistan - he is being savaged by New Labour's spin doctors.
US Navy - Project Minuteman, an attempt by the Office of Naval Research to deploy intelligent, networked sensing agents in battlefield conditions to gather intelligence and carry out attacks.
Background - Transformation - William Arkin on the poor job the US Secretary of Defense has done on explaining what makes a weapon system transformational and worth funding, and what makes a weapons system non-transformational and not worth funding.
Canadian Navy - A navy, like an army, fights on its stomach...
Indonesian Navy - Why Indonesia sent 6 warships to East Timor this week.
Royal Marines - The continued trials and tribulations of the Royal Marines.
US Marines - A review of the MV-22 Osprey program.
Editorial Note - It is not my practice to cover army or air force open source intelligence. However, I will from time to time link to articles that give insight into army or air force operations and the lessons learned from them that may have applicability to future navy or marine operations. Hence, the article about the 101st Airborne's patroling in Afghanistan on Friday, and the article below on Bosnia.
US Army - A long and well-written essay on peacekeeping in Bosnia with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division. The essay makes two interesting points. First, it illustrates how difficult it is to do peacekeeping well, and how the US could do it better. Second, it shows how the US Army is not an expeditionary force, and how much the US Army could learn from the US Marines about expeditionary forces. It is going to be very difficult to get buy-in from the US Army for the Medium Combat Brigades. (note that this article was written just before 9/11)
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia has sent its navy in a tactless show of force to the East Timor Independence celebrations.
Taiwanese Navy - Taiwanese legislators do not want to purchase Kidd-class destroyers from the US.
Indian Navy - The Indian Navy is on high alert against terrorist threats.
US Coast Guard - The US Navy and US Coast Guard are engaged in Operation Noble Eagle, the coastal patrol and maritime homeland security operation around the United States.
RAF - RAF helicopters are standing by to the evacuate passengers from a ferry in the North Sea that has had 2 fires on board.
Royal Marines - The Royal Marines are operating again in the field, in Operation Condor
Iranian Navy - Iran has purchased high-speed catamaran missile patrol boats from China.
Royal Navy - How the UK may build its new aircraft carriers - in modules.
Chinese Navy - China's first naval port of call on their around the world cruise - Singapore.
Chinese Navy - China will start another large exercise across the straits from Taiwan.
Taiwanese Navy - Taiwan successfully tested a Hsiungfeng II surface to surface missile.
Merchant Shipping - How the war on terrorism could change the shape of shipping by changing the concept of "flags of convenience" for merchant ships.
Chinese Navy - The Chinese Navy has embarked on its first global circumnavigation.
US Navy - The US is considering opening a naval gunnery and bombing range in Eritrea.
US Navy - The US Navy is developing ways to make submarine propellers more quickly.
Canadian Navy - The Canadian Navy is short of personnel, it will therefore be able to maintain 3 ships in the Arabian Gulf indefinitely.
US Marines - The current state of Marine aviation.
Royal Marines - Royal Marine operations in Afghanistan are on hold, after the SAS who serve as their recon troops are quarantined after the outbreak of a mystery illness at their base.
US Army - An excellent essay in which the reporter goes on a several-day long patrol with a company of the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan. It gives excellent insight into what the "war" on the ground is like -- more and more like Vietnam every day.
Russian Navy - The salvage of the bow of the Kursk is about to get underway.
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia tries to do more to fight terrorism...
Thai Navy - ...but the pirates keep scoring victories...
Royal Australian Navy - Australia beefs up its defenses.
Royal Marines - More from being on patrol in Operation Snipe.
US Navy - Will the Growler replace the EA-6B Prowler?
US Navy - What the US Pacific Fleet and its allies are doing for the war on terrorism.
Royal Marines - Now that it's over, the debate begins: Operation Snipe, boon or bust?
German Navy - Will the purchase of the German submarine maker HDW by a US firm lead to the transfer of its technology to Taiwan for use in the submarines promised to it by the US?
US Navy - How the Navy Marine Corps Intranet will help the US military carry out its missions.
Royal Marines - Operation Snipe is over, with no contact being made with the enemy.
US Navy - Plans for making CVN-77 a radically new type of aircraft carrier have been scaled back.
Israeli Navy - Israel sank an arms ship delivering arms to the Gaza Strip.
South African Navy - South Africa has acquired 6 ex-German Navy mine sweepers.
US Navy - CINCPAC on how the US Navy must fix its acquisition system to allow it to more rapidly field needed new technologies and get more bang for the buck for its procurement dollars.
Canadian Navy - Canada's second Upholder-class submarine may not enter service until 2005.
Canadian Navy - What it is like to fly in a 40 year old Sea King helicopter.
Royal Navy - Why England should not return Gibraltar to Spain.
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia claims its navy is not battle ready.
Chinese Navy - Looks like the ex-Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag will not be converted into a floating casino after all...
Indian Navy - The Light Combat Aircraft will be adapted for naval use.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Japan will order the EH-101 helicopter.
US Marines - How wearable computing will provide an augmented reality that may help Marines on the battlefield of the future.
US Coast Guard - The role that project Deepwater can play in homeland security.
History - US Navy - America's first nuclear-armed guided missile submarines - the submarines carring the Regulus I missile.
US Marines - Non-lethal weapons currently being worked on in the labs include...
Royal Marines - Two excellent accounts of being on patrol with 45 Commando in Afghanistan.
US Navy - An overview of the cooperative engagement capability.
Indian Navy - The Indian and French navies, including the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, will exercise next week.
US Navy - The home ports of several Trident ballistic missile submarines will be shifted around as some of the submarines are converted to carry cruise missiles.
US Coast Guard - The USCG cutter HarriettLane has rescued a large number of Haitians from a sinking sailboat near the Bahamas.
US Navy - The role the Military Sealift Command is playing on the war on terror.
Israeli Navy - Israeli has launched INS Herev, the first of two Nirit-class missile boats.
Pakistani Navy - Pakistan's project to produce French Agosta-class submarines has suffered a blow after a terrorist attack in Karachi kills a number of the French engineers working on the project.
US Marines - SECNAV says all the MV-22 Osprey's problems have been fixed.
Royal Navy - Britain says it would keep its military bases on Gibraltar if it turns Gibraltar's sovereignty over to Spain.
RAF - 100 people were evacuated by RAF Rescue from an oil rig that had been hit by a fishing boat.
Royal Marines - On patrol with 45 Commando in Operation Snipe, showing what an unusual conflict it is on the ground.
Chinese Navy - Chinese ships have made their first port call in South Korea.
US Marines - Lessons learned from the Marine's operations in Afghanistan.
Background - Indonesia - Thomas Friedman on why Indonesia needs to be treated as a friend by the US, and not as an enemy.
Royal Navy - More on the consequences of the scrapping of the Royal Navy's Sea Harrier fleet.
Taiwanese Navy - A spy ship has been spotted off Taiwan.
Bangladesh Navy - The Bangladesh Navy will be asked to patrol its rivers and enforce shipping regulations in order to prevent shipping disasters.
US Marines - The challenges facing helicopter operations at high altitudes.
South African Navy - What role will the navy play in South Africa's new expeditionary military strategy?
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Are the Japanese trying too hard to be helpful in the war on terrorism?
US Navy - Reenlistment rates are soaring in the US Navy.
Royal Marines - The Royal Marines are not encountering opposition for far in Operation Snipe.
US Navy - The US Navy is facing a shipbuilding crisis...
Background - Saudi Arabia - William Arkin on how the Saudi's are having a negative influence on the war on terrorism.
Canadian Navy - The Canadian Navy is playing a significant leadership role in the Arabian Sea.
US Coast Guard - On patrol for icebergs with the International Ice Patrol.
Background - Iraq - William Arkin dissects the current war plan against Iraq, and points out that how the US fights will determine how the end game evolves, and that current planning does not consider the end game...
Background - NATO - NATO is at a crucial point in deciding what it will look like and what is will be capable of doing in the future.
Royal Navy - HMS Sheffield is to be placed in reduced readiness.
German Navy - Aboard the German frigates making a port of call in Pakistan.
Indian Navy - The US and Indian navies are planning joint exercises together.
Royal Marines - 45 Commando is making slow progress on the ground in Afghanistan.
US Navy - How antisubmarine warfare is currently being performed by the US Navy.
Background - Iraq - The challenge of nation building in a post-Saddam Iraq.
Royal Marines - With 45 Commando on Operation Snipe.
US Navy - A US Navy oiler fired on small boats that approached it in the Straits of Hormuz.
Malaysian Navy - Malaysia and the US are cultivating a close naval relationship.
Columbian Navy - Columbia seized a large amount of cocaine at sea.
Background - Russia - The US and Russian militaries are cooperating more closely than ever.
Background - Iraq - Another strategy for toppling Saddam, by military analyst Austin Bay.
Background - Saddam Hussein - What Saddam is *really* like...an interview with "Blackhawk Down" author Mark Bowden.
Royal Marines - 45 Commando is on the move again in Afghanistan, mounting Operation Snipe.
Sri Lankan Navy - Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers are battling again at sea.
Russian Navy - Russia will close its base at Cam Ranh Bay this weekend.
Canadian Navy - HMCS St. John's deploys to the Arabian Sea.
Royal Australian Navy - Why Australia passed on purchasing the British Upholder-class submarines, leaving them for Canada to buy.
Royal Navy - More strikes loom for Royal Navy dockyards.
US Navy - The Ready Reserve Force ship Cornhusker State returns home from delivering supplies to the Persian Gulf.
US Navy - The CNO says he wants the littoral combat ship.
Background - War on Terrorism - Excellent essay by Robert Kaplan on how Samuel Huntington's theories are being proven correct by the war on terror.
Malaysian Navy - Malaysia's new submarines will be used for deep water, rather than littoral, operations.
German Navy - More on the German naval task force off the Horn of Africa.
US Navy - Aboard the USS John F. Kennedy, in the Arabian Sea, where air support missions continue to be flown around the clock.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - The Japanese are diving on the wreck of the suspected spy ship they sunk last year, to learn its secrets.
US Marines - What role does artillery have to play in expeditionary maneuver warfare?
Taiwanese Navy - Taiwan will buy the Kidd-class destroyers...while the US grows much closer to Taiwan.
Canadian Navy - Yet another problem with the Upholder-class submarines...possible cracks in diesel exhaust valves.
German Navy - Germany has assumed command of the naval task force off the Horn of Africa; its ships will make port calls in Pakistan soon.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - The US will sell another Aegis installation to Japan; and the US has asked Japan to contribute an Aegis-equipped destroyer and P-3 Orions to the task force in the Arabian Sea.
US Navy - The role of research and development in the US Navy.
Indian Navy - The Brahmos missile will not be ready for service for several years.
US Navy - Northrop Grumman wins the contract to design the DD-X.
US Navy - Did the US Navy play a role in the recent coup in Venezuela?
US Navy - The USS Kitty Hawk makes a port call in Hong Kong.
US Navy - How bats can help improve naval sonars.
US Navy - How the US Navy Sea Systems Command is changing to meet the current needs of the US Navy.
Background - War on Terrorism - Ralph Peters on how the US can make friends of Muslims - leave the Arab Muslims alone, and court the non-Arab Muslims.
US Navy - The new CINCPAC states his views on how the US should aid Taiwan.
US Marines - Part 2 of a series on what life is like today in boot camp at Parris Island.
Indian Navy - Why the US and India are growing closer.
Indian Navy - The Brahmos surface-to-surface missile has been successfully test fired.
Indian Navy - The Indian Navy is acquiring an airborne early warning capability through the acquisition of Ka-31 helicopters.
Background - Malaysia and Singapore - As Singapore reclaims more land from the sea, neighboring Malaysia gets nervous and jealous. Could this process result in a conflict between the two nations?
Background - Israel - A possible scenario by the military historian Martin Van Creveld on how events in the Middle East may play out.
Background - Iraq - The current strategy to topple Saddam.
Background- Fourth Generation Warfare - A new way to describe asymetrical warfare - 4G warfare.
US Marines - An overview of the US Marine Jungle Warfare Training Center on Okinawa.
US Navy - The US plans longterm to have more carrier battlegroups in the Western Pacific, to act as a counter to China.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Japanese ships are again making port calls in South Korea.
Canadian Navy - HMCS Preserver and HMCS Iroquois have returned home from the Arabian Sea.
US Navy - The USS John F. Kennedy may be able to keep Mayport, Florida as her home port, rather than being redeployed to Japan when the USS Kitty Hawk is retired as Japanese attitudes towards nuclear-powered ships are changing.
US Marines - The Marines helicopter fleet is getting very old....
US Navy - The current state of the DDX program.
Royal Marines - With 45 Commando in Afghanistan.
Russian Navy - The Kursk's last voyage to the scrapyard.
Canadian Navy - It will cost very little to fix Canada's dented submarine.
Malaysian Navy - Malaysia's Chief of the Navy on how territorial claims to the Spratly Islands are the greatest threats his country faces.
Indian Navy - The US Navy and Indian Navy will help to patrol the Malacca Straits.
Malaysian Navy - Malaysia states the US Navy and Indian Navy are welcome to help patrol the Malacca Straits.
Background - ASEAN - ASEAN is increasing in importance as an alliance.
Russian Navy - After a summit on how to share the resources of the Caspian Sea fails, the Russian Navy is told to hold military exercises in the Caspian Sea this summer.
US Marine Corps - Flight testing resumes on the MV-22.
US Navy - US Navy ships will begin refueling in Sri Lanka.
Background - Information Warfare - The US Navy Post Graduate School is training cyberwarriors.
Background - Open Source Intelligence - A dark day for open source intelligence in Greece, as a group of English plane spotters are found guilty of espionage for gathering open source intelligence in Greece.
Background - Terrorism - Are we overestimating the terrorist threat - a historical look...
US Navy - A list of ships that have been damaged while serving in the Middle East.
US Navy - More about life on the USS Bataan during her recent deployment in the Arabian Gulf.
US Navy - Meanwhile the USS George Washington performs predeployment workups.
Greeek Navy - The Greek's recommission another ex-Dutch Kortenaer-class frigate.
Sri Lankan Navy - The Tamil Sea Tigers push their truce with Sri Lanka.
US Navy - The key role tankers have played in the air over Afghanistan.
NATO Navies - The NH-90 helicopter program appears to be on solid ground.
Canadian Navy - The Canadian's are beginning to claim the Upholder-class submarines are lemons, the British disagree.
Background - Targeting - William Arkin on why targeting micromanagement must stop.
Russian Navy - How Russian shipyards are trying to stay alive.
German Navy - The Germans have been asked to take over the naval operation near the Horn of Africa.
US Navy - The US Navy needs to spend more on new aircraft.
US Navy - What life was like aboard the USS Bataan when it was off Afghanistan.
US Coast Guard - The US Coast Guard is changing its drug-interdiction tactics.
US Navy - How the Cyclone-class patrol ships are being used for homeland defense.
US Navy - An interview with the just-retired commander of the US 5th Fleet in the Middle East.
Background - Nuclear Triad - What the new triad will look like, and the Navy's role in it.
Background - South East Asian Navies - A good review of the arms race beginning in South East Asia.
Please note that NOSI will be next updated on Thursday.
US Navy - Seabees have landed to build airstrips in the Phillipines.
US Navy - At sea aboard the USS Cole.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - The US has asked Japan for more help in the Arabian Sea, including deployment of Aegis destroyers.
Royal Navy - The survivability of Royal Navy warships remains impaired due to development problems with the new active decoy round.
Background - Caspian Sea - Disputes over Caspian Sea oil continue, a naval buildup on all sides continues.
Background - Airpower - Part 2 of a history of the use of airpower in war. This month - airpower's failure in Vietnam.
Royal Marines - On the ground in Afghanistan with 45 Commando.
US Navy - CINCPAC says the US Navy is interested in using the base in Vietnam at Cam Ranh Bay.
US Navy - The F-18E Super Hornet is experiencing its first carrier qualifications aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Indian Navy - Is India's project to build nuclear powered submarines too secretive?
US Marines - US Marines will be exercising with Phillipine units off the Phillipines.
US Marines - The Marines are outsourcing their airlift - to the Russians.
US Navy - The controversy over low frequency sonar and how it affects marine mammals has taken a new twist after September 11.
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia and Malaysia pledge to patrol the Straits of Malacca more actively in an attempt to reduce piracy.
Iranian Navy - Iran will soon launch its own destroyer.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - The Japanese debate broadening the role of their forces.
Background - Unmanned Vehicles - How the battlefield is being transformed by unmanned devices.
Background - Peacekeeping - John Keegan on how not to perform peacekeeping.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2002
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Royal Marines - 45 Commando has begun operations in Afghanistan.
Taiwanese Navy - Chinese spy ships are probing Taiwan's defenses.
New Zealand Navy - The ANZAC frigates are developing cracks in their hulls.
Romanian Navy - The Romanian Navy purchase of Royal Navy Type 22 frigates is moving forward.
US Navy - How the US has covered the Mediterranean Sea without a carrier for the last 6 months.
US Navy - The USS Bataan amphibious ready group is returning home from the Arabian Sea.
US Navy - The USS Cole continues its workup.
US Navy - The MH-60S begins to enter service.
Royal Navy - On the Atlantic Patrol with HMS Newcastle.
Indian Navy - Now that the fighting in Sri Lanka has stopped, is it time for a Pax Indica in the Indian Ocean?
Malaysian Coast Guard - Malaysia will set up a Coast Guard.
US Marines - Life with the Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team.
Background - Mark Helprin summarizes the war on terror to date.
Finnish Navy - The role of camouflage in modern naval warfare.
US Navy - The command ship USS Blue Ridge returns to its homeport after 3 months at sea.
Royal Marines - More on the targets the Royal Marines have been assigned.
US Navy - The US Navy is using NASA satellite data to aid its forces on the ground in Afghanistan.
Background - Military Space - How military space assets have assisted the war on terror.
Background - Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and Terrorists - What are the prospects for terrorists acquiring WMD? Pretty good...
US Navy - The James River Reserve Fleet of maritime ships is no longer a national asset, instead it has become an environmental liability.
US Navy - US ships may again make port calls in Hong Kong.
Royal Marines - What the Royal Marines can expect to face in Afghanistan.
US Coast Guard - The Coast Guard and coastal defense.
US Navy - A review of the US Navy's FY2003 budget request.
Canadian Navy - What the Canadian Navy has accomplished in the Persian Gulf in the last 6 months.
US Navy - The US Navy is outsourcing its training.
US Navy - How the Internet is accessed by Sailors at sea.
US Navy - What the Navy Marine Corps Intranet means to the US Navy
Background - Precision Guided Weapons (PGMs) - PGMs continue to fall in price, making them more affordable to use...
Background - Precision Guided Weapons (PGMs)...while some evidence for just how precise they were in Afghanistan is now being documented...
Royal Navy - The Royal Navy is exercising with the Nigerian Navy.
Royal Navy - Dockyard strikes may impede the operational readiness of the Royal Navy's Trident fleet.
US Navy - Where the US Navy currently is with unmanned aerial vehicles, and where it would like to go.
Background - Transformation - Recently we've been reading how transformation will occur slowly, from the bottom up. Now there is evidence that Secretary Rumsfield will attempt to accelerate transformation from the top down, with his choices for new service chiefs and CINCs.
Background - Information Warfare - In the field, just like at work, more bandwidth is better bandwidth -- and a lack of bandwidth is severely hampering US military operations.
US Navy - More information on the potential of a subtype of unmanned undersea vehicles - the Sea Glider.
US Navy - The US Navy is phasing out its CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters that are used for vertical replenishment.
US Navy - The US Navy is thinking of not retiring the USS Constellation next year, when the USS Ronald Reagan enters service.
US Navy - The US Navy is not interested in converting cruise ships under construction to command ships.
French Navy - Two French warships are making a port call at Mumbai, before exercising with the Indian Navy.
Indian Navy - India is about to commission a new guided missile patrol craft.
Canadian Navy - Canadian ships continue to rotate through their Gulf task force.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
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US Navy - 75% of all munitions dropped by US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft in Afghanistan hit their targets.
US Navy - What life is like for submariners.
US Navy - A review of upcoming Trident-class submarine conversions.
Taiwanese Navy - The US has bids from 7 companies to produce submarines for Taiwan.
Malaysian Navy - Malaysia agrees to purchase French Scorpene-class submarines.
US Navy - A proposal for a new conventional triad for the 21st century: long-range land-based aviation, flexible special forces that require a minimal logistic infrastructure, and the sea services
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