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Archive January 2003 - June 2003
US Navy - More on how US carrier deployments will be changing.
Taiwanese Marines - The US and Taiwanese Marines will increase their cooperation.
US Navy - Snakebot is a developmental model of a slithering robot that might one day help remove land mines or worm its way inside collapsed buildings to help rescue victims without disturbing the tottering structures.
Russian Navy - Russia is exercising in the Baltic Sea.
Background - Imperialism - The United States—the most carefree, happiest empire in history—now confronts the question of whether it can escape Rome’s fate. The challenge can be localized, for a moment in Afghanistan, then in Iraq, but it is global in character. This nation has no choice but to exercise its imperial power, and how it does so will shape the emerging world order and test its own legitimacy as a democratic society.
Royal Navy - HMS Iron Duke continues the war on drugs in the Caribbean.
Background - Iraq - Thomas Ricks analyses the situation on the ground in Iraq.
Background - Homeland Defense - HS (Department of Homeland Security) officials and others with major responsibilities in the homeland-defense arena could learn much from the strategies used by the Department of Defense in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
US Marines - A way to do fire support better in the infantry battalion.
Background - Iraq - Peter J. Boyer writes about Tommy Franks, the general who commanded the U.S. troops in the war with Iraq, and about how he joined Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the fight to transform the military. Here Boyer talks about Franks's career path and his political skill, the future of the American military, and covering the war from Doha, Qatar.
Sorry for the late update, but a storm has knocked out our local Internet access...
US Navy - The US is considering changing the homeports of some of its ships, to move them closer to their theaters of operation.
US Navy - The island, or superstructure, of the Navy's new CVN 21 aircraft carrier is at the heart of numerous improvements planned for the ship.
Background - Exit Strategies - John Keegan on how getting out of a war is more difficult than getting into one...
Background - North Korea - War on the Korean Peninsula would likely mean hundreds of thousands killed and enormous damage, and if at all possible must be avoided. Colin Robinson, CDI Research Analyst, and Rear Adm. (Ret.) Stephen H. Baker, USN, CDI Senior Advisor, hold that a negotiated solution should be sought and pressed upon the North’s government by all means available.
US Navy - The USS Abraham Lincoln heads into overhaul.
Background - Iraq - James F. Dunnigan on how cash remains the currency of choice in post-war Iraq.
US Navy - Leaders can make sure the mission gets completed by empowering, protecting, and encouraging their people.
Greek Coast Guard - More on the explosives-laden ship seized by Greece yesterday.
US Navy - The Navy's newest helicopters--the MH-60R and MH-60S--have scored impressive accomplishments in tests and operations over the past year.
Background - Logistics - A fascinating look at how the US military is outsourcing its logistics to private corporations.
Background - American Empire - Robert D. Kaplan on how the United States projects power around the world—and why it must.
Greek Navy - Greece seizes a ship filled with explosives, bound for Africa.
US Navy - The people side of the Sea Power 21 vision - Sea Warrior.
Background - Special Forces - William Arkin explains the downside of depending on special forces.
US Navy - U.S. defense officials and industry program managers are examining the lessons learned from Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as they proceed with designing the aircraft and weapons that will transform today's armed forces to a more mobile, precise, and persistent force.
Background - Transformation - Technological improvement is important but, pursued in isolation, will lead only so far. If we focus exclusively on technology, we will fail. Technological and conceptual change must be integrated in a manner consistent with the enduring nature of war—characterized by essentially dispersed information, chaos, complexity, nonlinearity, and uncertainty.
US Marines - Another look at the formation of the Marines' new special operations force.
US Marines - The artillery community needs ‘a wakeup call’ in order to solve future fire support issues.
Background - Middle East - Gen.(Ret.) Anthony Zinni, USMC, former USCENTCOM Commander, assesses challenges and opportunities facing the United States in the Middle East and the greater Islamic world.
US Navy - The USS Kearsarge has been released from duty off of Liberia, as a ceasefire has been signed there.
US Navy - Venerable P-3 aircraft increase situational awareness on the battlefield.
Indian Navy - India takes delivery of INS Talwar, a Krivak-class frigate.
Background - Reconnaissance Satellites - USAF’s KH-7 spy satellite system constituted a major advance in overhead intelligence collection.
US Navy - A major restructuring of NATO's North American headquarters is taking place.
US Coast Guard - The Coast Guard has chosen their new maritime patrol aircraft.
Sri Lankan Navy - Sri Lanka has sunk a Tamil Tiger ship.
Taiwanese Navy - The current state of whether the US will be able to supply submarines to Taiwan.
Canadian Navy - Canada's navy has been worn out by its operations in the Gulf.
Background - Iraq - Civil Relationships - Historian Antony Beevor comments on the US Army's successes and failures in Iraq.
Background - Strategy - At their most abstract, U.S. national interests are simple: to ensure the security and prosperity of the American people in the global environment. But distinguishing core strategic interests—those for which Americans would be willing to die—from significant interests that might require commitment of treasure, blood, time, and energy is almost never easy.
NOSI will next be updated on Wednesday.
US Navy - The USS Mount Whitney returns home from the Horn of Africa.
US Navy - The USS Kearsarge is now off of Liberia
Russian Navy - A port of call for the Russian ships that have been exercising in the Indian Ocean.
Information Warfare - As U.S. officials assess how military and commercial space resources contributed to combat successes in Iraq and Afghanistan, it appears that a long-sought goal of integrating "space" with air, ground and maritime operations is being realized.
US Navy - The USS Kearsarge amphibious ready group may be diverted to Liberia to evacuate America citizens as the country begins to melt down.
Chinese Navy - Fall out from the Chinese submarine disaster.
US Navy - The latest in flight suits for aviators.
International Naval News - A roundup of naval news from the German, Spanish, and Greek navies.
North Korean Navy - More on the plans for a naval blockade of North Korea by Japan, Australia, and the U.S.
Background - Russia - Russian decline could yet bring new challenges for the United States.
US Navy - The Naval Undersea Warfare Center believes it has a winner in the Spartan, an unmanned surface vehicle designed for an array of high-risk missions including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and mine warfare in the littorals.
Background - Marine of the Future - The US Army opened its Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT last month. They are working on some very interesting projects for the poor bloody infantry. Starship Troopers may be closer than we thought...Please, read what the dream is, and we'll check back from time to time to see what the reality becomes...
US Navy - The the new and unique roles played by amphibious assault ships off of Iraq.
US Navy - The USS Constellation will be decomissioned.
Background - India - Will India and the US form an alliance to serve as a counterbalance to China?
Background - Iraq - James F. Dunnigan tells the history of Iraq as a story of gang warfare, and the implications for peacekeeping and nation building.
US Marines - Were the Marines' communication systems as seamless as they appeared to be in Iraq? Apparently not...
US Navy - The Navy intends to increase the size of the SEALs.
Military Sealift Command - Interview with Vice Adm. David L. Brewer III, Commander, Military Sealift Command.
Background - Basing - A more indepth look at what the US intends to do with base realignment around the world.
Dutch Marines - Holland will send a battalion of Marines to Iraq for peacekeeping.
Background - History - Ralph Peters looks at how the world has changed in the past decade and finds that America is both hostage to history and likely to be saved by it
Canadian Navy - Canada is scaling back its naval committment in the Gulf.
Chinese Navy - India begins to worry about the growing Chinese naval presence in the Indian Ocean.
Military Sealift Command - Strategic Sealift Program provides outsized capabilities for future conflicts.
US Marines - The Marine's approach to peacekeeping in Iraq.
US Navy - The US is making radical changes in how it will make available aircraft carrier battlegroups for deployment.
US Coast Guard - The future of logistics in the Coast Guard.
US Marines - Maritime Prepositioning Force Equipped Marines for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Background - Iraq - John Keegan on why the second Gulf war will not lead to an end in the conflict between Muslim and Western ways...
Background - Peacekeeping - Thomas Ricks nicely outlines the challenges facing US peacekeepers in Iraq.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Should Japan pull its ships out of the Gulf?
US Navy - Interview with Rear Adm. Charles L. Munns, Director of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Taiwanese Navy - Will Taiwan get the Kidd-class destroyers?
Background - Nation Building - Scenes from the new Afghanistan: A cautionary tale from America's last attempt at nation-building.
North Korean Navy - A tour of the North Korean spy ship captured by Japan.
South Korean Navy - South Korea chases North Korean fishing boats out of its territorial waters.
US Navy - A summary of the USS Constellation's last cruise.
US Navy - Naval news from around the US fleet.
Background - Asia - The US looks at shifting where its troops are deployed in Asia.
Background - Iraq - William Arkin on how speed, as well as pauses, kill.
US Navy - A look at the medical department aboard the USS Bataan.
US Navy - Polar bear vs. submarine.
Background - History - A look at the US Navy's early research into nuclear propulsion.
US Marines - A year of flight testing has led to a reversal of fortune for the V-22, with senior Pentagon officials giving their blessing to take the tiltrotor into a higher production rate.
Canadian Navy - Should Canada purchase aircraft carriers?
International Naval News - Naval news from Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, and the Netherlands.
Chinese Navy - China continues to probe Taiwan's defenses.
US Marines - The Deputy Commandant for Aviation provides his annual assessment.
US Navy - The differences between the USS Ronald Reagan and other Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
US Navy - An Interview with Rep. Edward L. Schrock, Chairman of the Navy-Marine Corps Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Background - Airpower - Some official lessons learned from the USAF in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Royal Navy - Are further deep cuts ahead for the Royal Navy?
US Navy - Linked by high-tech communications systems, commanding officers never again will be alone at sea. They are at the tip of a spear whose aim is now influenced by thousands of well-intentioned but largely invisible hands that act from hundreds of nodes on a worldwide network.
Royal Navy - The nuclear submarine HMS Tireless may have hit an iceberg while submerged.
NATO - NATO is tracking 20 merchant ships believed to be used by Al Qaeda.
Russian Navy - Why it is important to help Russia in dismantling its retired nuclear submarines.
US Navy - Naval Network Warfare Command is integrating systems, capabilities, sensors, and people to achieve a netted warfighting force.
Background - Network Centric Warfare - The ability of Canadian warships to operate in U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups demonstrates that coalition network-centric naval warfare is possible. It has also shown, however, that the price of admission for coalition navies is high, in terms of technical interoperability, professional trust, and policy—above all, with respect to information transfer.
Indian Navy - More on the importance of the current exercises between the Indian and Russian navies.
US Navy - The US commissions a new antiterrorist squadron.
US Navy - The Chief of Naval Operations on the future of the US Navy.
Background - Airpower - James F. Dunnigan gives an overview of the air war in Iraq.
Background - Information Warfare - A fascinating look at how the US wired the battlefield in Iraq to allow Internet connectivity between units.
Israeli Navy - Israel seizes a ship at sea carrying supplies for terrorists.
US Navy - The sea services muster unmanned aerial vehicles for growing list of missions.
US Navy - A quick first pass at lessons learned by the US Navy in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Background - Iraq - Thomas Friedman describes insightfully the current state of affairs in Iraq.
US Marines - Marine Corps embraces the concept of sea basing.
US Navy - Is this the last cruise of the USS Constellation? Meanwhile, the Chief of Naval Operations says "The Navy must "create a culture of readiness.""
US Navy - Sea Power 21 Series: Part VI
Taiwanese Navy - Taiwan needs to replace its S-2 Trackers, but new P-3C's are too expensive.
Russian Navy - An overview of the India - Russian naval exercises about to get underway.
Background - History - The history of catamarans in the US Navy.
Canadian Navy - Canada is reducing its naval committment to the Gulf.
Indian Navy - The US will send a nuclear attack submarine to exercise with India.
US Marines - US Marines are operating inside Kenya, hunting for terrorists.
Background - Naval Strategy - Certain classic functions of navies have disappeared (for the time being at least), others have changed, and a few new ones have emerged. In the new conditions, navies at war will strive to make sure that friendly ships and aircraft can get where they are needed when they are needed, and that those of the enemy cannot do these things. Furthermore, as occasion demands, navies will land forces, when possible in friendly ports, if necessary on or over hostile shores, and support them then and thereafter with fire and logistics.
Royal Navy - HMS Ark Royal returns home.
Singaporean Navy - Royal Navy ships are in Singapore for exercises.
Thai Navy - Exercise Cobra Gold is underway between Thailand, the US, and Singapore.
US Coast Guard - A special report from the USCG commandant on the IDS (Integrated Deepwater System) program.
Al Aaeda - How terrorists could attack the US from cargo ships.
US Navy - The USS Carl Vinson heads back to sea.
US Marines - No Service was better prepared to fight the war on terror than the Marine Corps, yet it was relegated to the periphery. Has the Nation’s premiere small unit infantry been replaced by the joint Special Operations Command?
Background - Laser Weapons - An interesting overview on the use of lasers as weapons.
Russian Navy - Russia considers using Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarines as tankers.
International Naval News - News on the Australian, Canadian, German, and Portugese navies.
US Navy - A look at the US Navy's mine countermeasures activities in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Background - Non-lethal weapons - A sceptical look at non-lethal weapons.
US Navy - Life aboard the destroyer USS Briscoe.
US Navy - An update on the Navy’s future generation of surface combatants.
Royal Navy - England performs a drug bust in the Mid-Atlantic.
US Marines - Marine Corps doctrine for attack helicopter close air support (CAS) is not responsive to the needs of the ground commander and should be revised.
Background - Embedding - William Arkin shows the true value of the embedded journalists.
Background - Seymour Hersh - I enjoying Seymour Hersh's work as I consider it to be interesting and well written. Here is a fascinating analysis of Hersh's work - basically if Hersh makes a predictation, he is bound to be wrong!
US Navy - Naval aviation news from around the US fleet.
Background - Targeting - Regional commanders and their staffs must be vigilant to ensure that they attack only targets that are legal under the law of war, and only in legal ways. They must be equally vigilant, however, against nongovernmental activists who would so reinterpret the law as to make their tasks much more difficult, even impossible.
US Navy - The USS Carl Vinson visits Japan.
Background - Information Warfare - An outstanding program on the information warfare threat to the US. I've linked below to the transcript, visit the Home page to watch the show or view more information.
...I will be able to update NOSI today and tomorrow after all...
US Navy - The USS Ronald Reagan successfully completes builders trials.
Background - Intelligence - Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?
Background - Intelligence - Seymour M. Hersh looks at a small circle of analysts and advisers at the Pentagon who came to rival the C.I.A. as the President's primary source of intelligence about Iraq; Hersh reports that questions have been raised about the integrity of the intelligence the group relied on.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Mount Whitney, off the Horn of Africa.
Chinese Navy - China did not even know one of its submarines was missing...
NOSI will next be updated on Sunday. Until then, here are some extra articles to keep you occupied...
US Navy - The Navy is moving with "lightning speed" to design and build a fleet of up to 65 Littoral Combat Ships.
US Marines - The complexities and requirements involved in river crossings are explained.
Merchant Marine - What steps are being taken to protect US ports from terrorism.
Background - Strategy - How Colonel John Boyd's theory of Penetrate-Isolate-Subvert-Reorient-Reharmonize was used in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Chinese Navy - More details on the Chinese submarine disaster.
Royal Navy - John Keegan on why the UK needs new large-deck aircraft carriers.
US Navy - The USS Kitty Hawk returns home.
US Navy - The USS Ronald Reagan begins builders trials.
US Navy - How the US is trying to document "lessons learned" in Iraq.
US Navy - Norman Friedman on the similar lessons learned from both Gulf Wars.
Singaporean Navy - A review of the state of Singapore's fleet, as it celebrates its 36th anniversary.
Chinese Navy - More details on the Chinese submarine disaster - it happened over 2 weeks ago.
US Navy - A look at US forces redeploying home from the Gulf.
Background - Nuclear Proliferation - At the end of the cold war, weapons of mass destruction were mostly abstractions. Suddenly, they are proliferating, and those who now have or want nukes will use them to blackmail, or worse.
Indian Navy - The importance of the naval exercises between India and Russia.
Chinese Navy - Still no explanation of what transpired aboard the Ming-class submarine resulting in the loss of the crew but the preservation of the boat.
Royal Australian Navy - Australia's efforts in mine clearance in the Gulf have been substantial.
Background - History - An excellent history of the beginnings of the US Navy's
SOSUS program. SOSUS was a massive Cold War R&D project that built upon
earlier discoveries in ocean acoustics, particularly long-range sound
transmission, and applied it to the detection of Soviet submarines.
Chinese Navy - A Chinese submarine suffers a mysterious accident, all of its crew are killed, and the submarine has been towed to port.
US Marines - Marines in Iraq prepare to reembark for the US.
US Navy - With the Seabees in Iraq.
US Navy - Is the US considering a naval blockade of North Korea?
Background - Air War - A review of the air war.
Background - Transformation - William Arkin on why the US military should rest on its laurels for a while and not worry about the future so much.
Nigerian Navy - Nigeria's navy will attempt to end a hostage situation on several oil rigs.
Royal Marines - A Special Boat Squadron patrol that went wrong in Iraq...
US Navy - The USS Abraham Lincoln battlegroup is almost home.
US Navy - The Truman and Roosevelt battlegroups prepare to return home.
US Coast Guard - Patroling off of Iraq with the Coast Guard.
Background - Iraqi Army - Why the Iraqi Army performed so poorly.
Background - Imperialism - Niall Ferguson on why Americans don't really have what it takes to rule the world.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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Background - Information Warfare - A look at how Naval Academy midshipmen are wargaming information warfare.
Royal Marines - 3 Commando Brigade is heading home.
Canadian Navy - Canada needs to secure the sovereignty of the Northwest Passage.
US Navy - The USS Harry S Truman battlegroup will head home soon.
NOSI will take a brief break until next Wednesday. Here is some weekend reading, in advance:
Background - Naval History - Maritime and naval history serve the needs of several “audiences” in and around the Navy. However, the service’s approach to naval history is “disjointed, sporadic, [and] inconsistent.” Despite various initiatives and widespread interest, the Navy lacks an integrated policy for employing naval history, and high-level interest will be required to make history the valuable resource it could and should be.
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
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Malaysian Navy - A new training ship will be build by the Malaysian Navy.
US Navy - Aboard the USNS Comfort.
US Marines - Tales from an embedded reporter with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines.
US Marines - Downtime is bad time for these Marines.
US Marines - To get to Baghdad, the marines of the Third Battalion fought the old-fashioned way — by shooting as many of the enemy as they could. Their victims weren't all soldiers.
Background - Strategy - Ralph Peters reviews what were the key decisions made in the war by the U.S.
Taiwanese Navy - Taiwan still can't decide if it wants to buy the Kidd-class destroyers from the US.
US Coast Guard - Coast Guard members on board the USS Chinook have located
and secured a cache of Iraqi military equipment and weapons hidden in
coastal caves in southern Iraq.
US Coast Guard - They live a weird, watery, Mad Max kind of life, the
39 U.S. Coast Guard reservists who have landed the unlikely job of guarding
the Mina al Bakr oil rig 13 miles off the coast of Iraq. Commandeered by
Navy SEALs on March 19, the nearly milelong rig-a ramshackle, rusty
contraption overrun with cockroaches and connected to Iraq's southern oil
fields by underwater pipeline-was Iraq's only legal export point for oil
before the war.
Background - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - The pilotless planes that hovered over Baghdad are the cusp of a technological revolution that could change the way wars are fought — with fewer soldiers and smarter machines. But within the military itself, the idea persists that all wars eventually have to be won on the ground, with blood and guts.
Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Stuart helps Australia defends its borders against drug smugglers.
US Navy - What the Seabees are doing in Iraq.
Background - Air War - How the US continues to close the sensor - shooter loop.
Background - Middle East Bases - The US is starting reconsider where its bases should be in the Middle East. A financial drain and Arab sensibilities are driving military cuts in the Middle East.
Background - Iraq - Ralph Peters asks why shouldn't Iraq be broken up?
Royal New Zealand Navy - On antiterrorism patrol in the Gulf.
US Navy - The US may keep the aircraft carrier USS Constellation in commission, rathering than retiring it.
Royal Navy - The Royal Navy's nuclear attack submarines will be trimmed according to a new defense white paper.
Background - Transformation - Thomas Ricks says the Secretary of Defense, emboldened by the swift US victory in Iraq, is ready to try to transform the military - again.
History - A history of the end of the last Royal Yacht, HMS Britannia.
History - A review of Operational El Dorado Canyon against Libya in 1986.
Indian Navy - India launches its first stealth warship.
US Navy - The USS Constellation and USS Kitty Hawk battlegroups leave the Gulf and sail for home.
US Marines - Marines begin exercising in the Phillipines.
Background - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - How UAVs have been used in Iraq.
Background - Yemen and Eritrea - Robert Kaplan travels to Yemen and Eritrea, and finds that the war on terrorism is forcing U.S. involvement with the one country's tribal turbulence and the other's obsessive fear of chaos.
Royal Navy - The submarine HMS Turbulent returns home.
US Navy - Navy pilots complain that tanking from US Air Force tankers was not always conveniently available for them over Iraq.
US Marines - With the Force Recon Marines.
US Marines - 3 occupation zones are set up in Iraq, the Marines will take the south.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan takes a look at military rivalries and the differences and similarities between US and British forces.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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With the fall of Tikrit, we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming...
US Navy - The first submarines return from off of Iraq.
US Navy - A new design for a naval unmanned aerial vehicle.
US Marines - Tikrit falls to the Marines, the Pentagon says the war is essentially over.
Background - Iraq - A look at how Baghdad's collapase looked from inside Baghdad.
Indian Navy - India sets an ambitious exercise schedule for the next few months.
US Navy - More about the status of US aircraft carriers in the Gulf.
US Marines - The Marines are battling for Tikrit...
US Marines - ...as others try to keep the peace.
US Coast Guard - Some analysts have suggested that the increasingly
overburdened Coast Guard needs to hand off certain nonsecurity functions,
but the service's chief officer said Tuesday that would be a mistake.
US Coast Guard - In some ways, what the crew members of the U.S.
Coast Guard cutter Wrangell have been doing in the Persian Gulf is similar
to the work they do at home in Maine.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks and Rick Atkinson review the war to date.
Background - Strategy - Colonel John Boyd's influence on the US war plan.
Background - Strategy - How the victory over Iraq empowers the transformation lobby.
Background - Civilian Casualties - William Arkin on how the US should handle the issue of civilian casualties.
Royal Navy - The English are sending most of their naval task force in the Gulf home or to the Far East; HMS Ocean will remain on station in the Gulf.
US Marines - Some Marines head toward Tikrit...
US Marines - ...while other Marines transition to peacekeeping.
US Navy - The US prepares to rotate aircraft carriers back home.
Canadian Navy - Some of the anti-terrorism task force in the Gulf may be redeployed to the Horn of Africa.
US Navy - The Chinese continue to harass EP-3 flights off of China.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan asks - why did the analysts so misanalyze this war?
Background - Strategy - Max Hasting analyses the (lack of) Iraqi strategy.
Background - Axis of Evil - Who will be next on the American's list?
Royal Navy - While RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Percivale have delivered humanitarian supplies to Umn Qasr, the port is still considered too dangerous for civilian ships.
US Navy - The life and responsibilities of a plane captain on an aircraft carrier.
Royal Marines - With the Royal Marines in Basra.
US Marines - With the Marines in Baghdad.
US Marines - With the Marines of Task Force Tarawa far south of Baghdad.
Background - Strategy - A nice look at the different ways to seize a city - the U.S. way and the U.K. way.
...NOSI is taking a short break, and will next be updated on Sunday. See you then!
US Marines - With Task Force Tarawa south of Baghdad.
US Marines - With the Marines outside Baghdad.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan criticises Saddam's strategy, and describes what it should have been.
US Navy - A more detailed look at how the Navy is using dolphins to clear mines at Umn Qasr.
US Navy - Because so many amphibious ready groups and carrier battlegroups are currently forward deployed, those that deploy to relieve them will be at sea a long time to get deployment schedules back on track. Also the Navy is thinking of retaining the USS Constellation once the USS Ronal Reagan is commissioned, giving the US 13 aircraft carriers.
Background - Air War - William Arkin criticises the air war to date.
Background - Air War - Another analysis of how successful the air war has been to date.
Background - Air War - How the air war is being conducted over Baghdad.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks on how the type of war being waged is changing.
US Marines - With the 7th Marine Regiment outside Baghdad.
US Marines - With Task Force Tarawa, covering the lines of supply.
US Marines - The Marines engage in a tense firefight on the edge of Baghdad.
US Navy - How the Navy attempts to prevent fraternization at sea.
Background - War Plan - Ralph Peters critiques the Secretary of Defense's original war plan.
Background - Iraq - James F. Dunnigan lays down a scenario for how civil war may develop in Iraq in the coming days and weeks.
Background - Iraq - Ralph Peters nicely documents Saddam's record of atrocities against his own people.
Background - Iraq - When did Bush decide that he had to fight Saddam?
US Marines - The Commander of the 1st Marine Regiment has been relieved of his command.
US Marines - The Marines are establishing an innovative medivac system.
US Marines - With the Marines outside Baghdad.
Royal Marines - Royal Marines are patroling the waterways of southern Iraq.
US Navy - Aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan again asks, what is Iraq's strategy?
Background - Strategy - A summary of John Keegan's thoughts on the war to date.
Background - Strategy - Ralph Peters comments on the successful US strategy so far.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks and Michael Gordon analyse the options for seizing Baghdad.
Background - Kurds - The mood among the Kurds is one of anticipation—and fear.
Russian Navy - Russia will send a task force to the Indian Ocean.
Royal Australian Navy - Australia sends new mine sweeping technology urgently to Umn Qasr.
US Marines - With the Marines outside Baghdad.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks analyses the options available to the US now that it is outside Baghdad.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan asks some fascinating questions about the seeming lack of any Iraqi strategy.
Background - Special Forces - Ralph Peters analyses the US special forces.
Background - Iraq - Tomahawks, bunker busters, and dust storms afflict the Iraqi capital.
US Navy - With the pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
US Navy - The Navy has used up two thirds of its cruise missile inventory.
US Navy - There are continued problems with the Advanced Seal Delivery System.
US Marines - With the First Marine Division.
US Marines - A review of Meals Ready to Eat, from the Marine's perspective.
US Coast Guard - The Coast Guard's traditional tasks are suffering since 9/11.
US Navy - Implementation of Sea Strike requires a longer reach for Navy ships and aircraft.
Background - Information War - Iraq's communication infrastructure is being dismantled.
Background - The Arab Street - Ralph Peters surveys the Arab world and finds it sadly lacking in many ways.
Background - The Air War - The view from the banks of the Tigris.
Canadian Navy - HMCS Iroquois arrives in the Gulf.
US Navy - The US is moving more escorts from the Med to the Red Sea so their cruise missiles will not overfly Turkey or Saudia Arabia.
US Navy - Sorties off of carriers in the Med continue to increase.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
US Marines - The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit hits the beach in Kuwait.
US Marines - The Marines push forward towards Baghdad.
US Navy - More on the Sea Power 21 vision.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan gives an insightful analysis of the war's progress to date.
Background - Secretary of Defense - Seymour Hersch on the battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.
Sri Lankan Navy - Rebels attack a Sri Lankan Navy boat.
Royal Australian Navy - Australia is scaling down its prescence in the Gulf.
US Navy - In the field with the Navy's new forward resuscitative surgical systems.
Royal Marines - With the Royal Marines participating in Operation James, outside Basra.
US Marines - With the Marines gathering outside Baghdad.
US Marines - Marine Corps gears up for 21st-century special operations missions.
Background - Strategy - William Arkin critiques the war to date.
Background - Strategy - James Dunnigan on what lessons from history are influencing Saddam's strategy.
Background - Wargames - Austin Bay estimates the war will last 5-6 weeks, based on wargame simulations.
US Marines - The Marines get to put into practice the theory of the "Three Block War."
Royal Marines - In the HQ of 3 Commando Brigade during Operation James in the city of Basra.
NAVINT - Antony Preston's naval news from the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, France, Italy, and Romania.
Background - Strategy - James Webb gives a reality check. War *is* hell.
Background - Shock and Awe - More on the theory of shock and awe.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks reviews the war's progress to date.
US Navy - The US suspends some cruise missile firing, in search of a cause of weapon malfunctions.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Constellation.
Royal Marines - In the field with 42 Commando.
US Marines - With the Marines outside Nasiriya.
US Marines - Inside the Marines' war room in Iraq.
History - When the US Navy first went wireless - 100 years ago.
Background - Covert Operations - A summary of US covert operations currently underway against Iraq.
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force - Japan expands its refueling of coalition ships in the Gulf.
US Navy - The USS Nassau and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit are redeploying from the Horn of Africa to Iraq.
Royal Navy - RFA Sir Galahad finally docks at Umn Qasr.
US Navy - Aboard the high speed catamaran HSV-X1 Joint Venture in the Gulf which has become a seaborne forward operating base for Navy special operations forces.
US Navy - With pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
US Marines - The Marines morale is not all it could be...
US Marines - ...and here is why...
US Marines - A look at the friendly fire incident between two Marine units.
US Marines - A look at what the Marines' snipers are doing.
US Navy - Congress tries to pass a bill to establish a 375 ship fleet.
Background - Iraq - James Dunnigan gives the top 10 myths about the war.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan analyses what the next steps may be.
Background - Strategy - Ahmed Rashid compares and contrasts the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Friedman on what the US must do to declare victory in Iraq.
US Marines - With the Marines in a firefight where close air support saves the day.
US Marines - The problems facing convoys trying to resupply Marines on the front line.
Royal Navy - RFA Sir Galahad's humanitarian aid is being held up by mines in Umn Qasr.
US Navy - How the US Navy is trying to open up shipping lanes off of Iraq.
US Navy - The effect of the sandstorms on ships in the Gulf.
US Navy - The effect of the sandstorms on air operations in the Gulf.
US Navy - Aboard the guided missile cruiser Cape St. George, the problems of deploying ahead of schedule.
US Navy - Aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort.
US Navy - The USS Carl Vinson shows the flag off of Korea.
US Navy - Further demonstrations of the maritime capabilities of the Global Hawk UAV are planned.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks on the war plan to date.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan on the effects that strict rules of engagement are having on coalition forces.
Background - Strategy - Ralph Peters on why the US military culture is superior to the Iraqi military culture.
Background - Strategy - Ralph Peters on why there will not be a bloodbath in Baghdad.
Background - Strategy - ...but Mark Bowden disagrees.
Background - Special Forces - James F. Dunnigan on one potential use for special forces.
Royal Navy - Life aboard HMS Ark Royal in the Gulf.
US Navy - The effect the weather has had on carrier operations.
US Marines - With the Marines in An Nasiriyah.
Chinese Navy - The importance of submarines to China's maritime strategy.
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Background - Strategy - An excellent analysis by Ralph Peters on the US war plan to date.
Background - Strategy - Ralph Peters on the importance of infantry in war.
US Navy - The US is using dolphins for mine sweeping around Umm Qasr.
US Navy - The Navy is using its new Super Hornets as air refueling tankers.
US Navy - With the pilots aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.
US Marines - With the Marines of Task Force Tarawa outside Nasiriyah.
US Navy - The Combat Direction Systems Activity in Dam Neck, Va., is a key enabler for operational superiority and warfighter readiness.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan analyses coalition progress to date.
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks analyses coalition progress to date.
Background - Airpower - James Dunnigan on how the JDAM GPS-guided bomb may fare poorly as a weapon in support of street fighting.
Background - Fedayeen paramilitaries - A clear explanation of the situation on the ground in Southern Iraq that I have yet to see on TV - a look at how Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitaries are the main threat to coalition ground forces.
Royal Marines - Life with the Royal Marines in the field.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.
US Marines - With the Marines in Task Force Tarawa.
US Coast Guard - Patrolling US ports from the sky with Coast Guard aviators.
Background - War on Terror- An analysis of using terrorism as a way to wage war against the US.
Analysis - A few thoughts of my own.
The non-story so far is that Israel has not been attacked by SCUDs fired from Iraq, thus keeping Israel out of the war. This means the special forces are being very successful in western Iraq.
The worst story so far is Turkey not letting the 4th Infantry Division in to open the Northern Front. US troops need to be inserted as a buffer between the Turks and the Kurds and the northern oil fields near Kirkuk need to be taken.
The biggest question so far is where are the 101st Airborne and the 82nd Airborne divisions? My guess is that some of these units are being sent to the north of Iraq to open the Northern Front. Quite possibly some of them may be inserted behind the Republican Guard troops outside Baghdad to surround them completely. We should learn the position of these units soon.
Now back to the news...
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks critiques the war plan so far.
Background - Strategy - William Arkin comments on the war plan.
US Navy - How the Navy is trying to capture oral histories of participants in the war.
US Marines - Inside the Marine Combat Operations Center.
US Marines - The logistic challenges facing the Marines.
US Navy - A combat mission over Iraq with pilots from the USS Abraham Lincoln.
US Marines - With the Marines of Task Force Tarawa.
Indonesian Navy - Indonesia is building a new naval base in western Paupua.
US Coast Guard - Modernization of the Coast Guard’s C4ISR systems is a critical element of the Deepwater acquisition strategy.
Background - Strategy - Edward Luttwak reviews the war plan so far.
Background - Information Warfare - James Dunnigan on how the US is conducting information warfare against Iraq.
Background - History - A review of the earlier British invasion of Iraq.
US Navy - How the Navy has prevented the Iraqi's from mining Umn Qasr.
US Navy - With the pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
US Navy - Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.
US Marines - The importance of amphibious ready groups in the post-Vietnam era, and what it bodes for the future.
BBC - What interests me most, coverage-wise, are the front-line reports from correspondents. Here are the combined Weblogs of the BBC's front-line correspondents. I am checking this several times a day...
Background - Shock and Awe - Where the term comes from...
Background - Strategy - Thomas Ricks reviews the battle plan.
Background - Strategy - John Keegan reviews the battle plan.
Background - Strategy - Ralph Peters on the challenges facing Iraq's generals; and how the decapitation strike against Saddam |