The archive for all of 2012 is now available at 2012 Archive

2012 World Naval Operational News Highlights The ten most significant naval news stories / themes this year included: The drawdown of troops from Afghanistan. What exactly was accomplished by the surge? The continued tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and the US Navy presence in the Persian Gulf. What will Israel do? The increasing Chinese sabre [...]

Some time recently, NOSI’s WordPress Web hosting software was compromised with some malware. Thanks to Fred for bringing it to my attention! NOSI’s content was transferred last week by my hosting service to a new clean version of the WordPress Web hosting software. As part of that NOSI got a new template, so I will [...]

We invite you to try the newly updated War Studies Primer 2012 (http://www.warstudiesprimer.org) – an introductory course on the study of war and military history. Its purpose is to provide an introduction, or primer, to the study of war. War Studies Primer is presented as a lecture curriculum at the university level. It is a [...]

- Just a reminder that NOSI stories can be commented on and discussed on NOSI’s Facebook page for those who are interested.

NOSI’s archive for 2011 is now available here.

The ten most significant naval news stories / themes this year included: The withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraq. After nearly a decade and a trillion dollars later, what exactly does the US have to show for it? The troop surge, and subseqent beginning of the drawdown in Afghanistan. What exactly will victory look [...]

- We invite you to try the newly updated War Studies Primer (http://www.warstudiesprimer.org) – an introductory course on the study of war and military history. Its purpose is to provide an introduction, or primer, to the study of war. War Studies Primer is presented as a lecture curriculum at the university level. It is a [...]

NOSI now has a Facebook page, which will contain copies of the posts on this site. The big difference is that on Facebook, you will be able to comment on each post if you wish. Feel free to join (or Like) the page and let me know what you think: NOSI Facebook Page. Also, please [...]

NOSI is taking a summer break and will next update on August 2nd. See you then!

2009 World Naval Operational News Highlights The ten most significant naval news stories / themes this year included: The ever-increasing piracy off of Somalia and the expanding, expensive and ultimately ineffectual response to it by the world’s navies. When will some country pass a law against piracy and start prosecuting and jailing these pirates? The [...]

NOSI’s archive from January – December 2009 is now available: January-December 2009

I have started a new Web site, using Facebook, entitled P-8 Poseidon God of the Sea. It is dedicated to operational naval news and discussion on the P-8 Poseidon as well as the world wide VP / maritime patrol aircraft community. You are invited to give it a try.

NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Monday August 10. During this time, please consider visiting our related site and downloading the War Studies Primer for an introductory course on the study of war. Look at slides 2 and 3 in the War Studies Primer for its Table of Contents, and [...]

2008 World Naval Operational News Highlights The ten most significant naval news stories / themes this year included: The increasing amount of piracy off of Somalia, and the increasingly ad-hoc response from the world’s navies. It seems the law needs to catch up with reality, and that there needs to be better coordination between the [...]

NOSI’s archive from January – December 2008 is now available: January – December 2008

NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Tuesday January 6. During this time, please consider visiting our related site and downloading the War Studies Primer for an introductory course on the study of war. Look at slides 2 and 3 in the War Studies Primer for its Table of Contents, and [...]

Today NOSI has migrated from the Manila blogging platform which it has used over the last 9 years, to the more popular WordPress blogging platform. The entire site was migrated over in an automated fashion. If you see any bugs or broken links in this new site, please take a moment to let me know. [...]

NOSI is taking a short break and will next update on Monday September 22. During this time, please consider visiting our related site and downloading the War Studies Primer for an introductory course on the study of war. Look at slides 2 and 3 in the War Studies Primer for its Table of Contents, and [...]