Daily Telegraph - Russia has raised the stakes in the international scramble for the Arctic by announcing it will boost its military presence in the region to protect its "national interests".

Defense Technology International - No less than three NATO submarines are ending up on the bottom off the southern coast of Norway this week. Not that you'll see this as Breaking News on any major news network. ...

StrategyPage - The Russian Navy's shipbuilding plans are still mostly plans. For the last seventeen years, most of their construction effort went into finishing a few subs, and building for export.

Russian Navy - A Russian rescue system coupled with a NATO submarine for the first time on Wednesday in a joint exercise off Norway.

Associated Press - U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend. One Russian Tupolev 95 flew directly over the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz twice, at a low altitude of about 2,000 feet, while another bomber circled about 58 miles out.