Navy Times - This month, a photograph appeared on the Internet of the propeller on an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine at Trident Submarine Base in Bangor. A key to the submarine's ability to deploy and remain undetected, propeller designs have been kept under wraps for years, literally. When out of the water, the propellers typically are draped with tarps. The propeller image appeared on Microsoft's mapping tool, Virtual Earth.

Foreign Affairs - Sixty years ago, the National Security Act created a U.S. intelligence infrastructure that would help win the Cold War. But on 9/11, the need to reform that system became painfully clear. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is now spearheading efforts to enable the intelligence community to better shield the United States from the new threats it faces.

Washington Times - Arnaud de Borchgrave writes an interesting assessment of the state-of-the-art in open source intelligence.

Defense and the National Interest - An interesting essay from William Lind on what military intelligence *should* be - "a correction from below."

New York Times Magazine - The nation’s intelligence agencies are giving their cold-war-era computer systems a makeover. But will blogs and wikis really help spies uncover terrorist plots?