NOSI - Naval Open Source IntelligenceNaval Open Source Intelligence is a digital library of world naval operational news curated from open source intelligence by Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D. (www.nosi.org)Russian Navy - Russia's Phantom Fleet Buildup- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 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.http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20080601.aspx Piracy - Navies to tackle Somali pirates- (Found July 2, 2008 ) BBC - The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to allow countries to send warships into Somalia's territorial waters to tackle pirates.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7432612.stm Terrorism - Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave- (Found July 2, 2008 ) New York Review of Books - Ahmed Rashid reviews the current state of the jihad against the West.http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21473 US Navy - Navy Hopes This Jam Is Gonna Last- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Defense Technology International - The customer sounds happy as the first EA-18G Growler reaches the operator.http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=... Operations Other Than War - U.S. ships set to leave Myanmar; aid undelivered- (Found July 2, 2008 ) CNN - U.S. Navy ships loaded with supplies for victims of Myanmar's cyclone will sail away from the country's coast on Thursday, after the ruling junta refused for three weeks to allow them to deliver aid.http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/04/myanmar.us/?iref=hpmostpop Russian Navy - NATO, Russia Practise Rescuing Stricken Submarine Crews- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 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. ...http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=... Geopolitics - The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Foreign Affairs - The United States' unipolar moment is over. International relations in the twenty-first century will be defined by nonpolarity. Power will be diffuse rather than concentrated, and the decline as that of nonstate actors increases. But this is not all bad news for the United States; Washington can still manage the transition and make the world a safer place.http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080501faessay87304/richard-n-haass/the-age-of-nonpolarity.... US Navy - U.S. Downs Missile In Test Over Pacific- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Associated Press - The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year. The military fired at the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii's island of Kauai. The USS Lake Erie, based at Pearl Harbor, fired two interceptor missiles that shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060504422.html US Marines - New training hones Marines' visual skills- (Found July 2, 2008 ) USA Today - Faced with an alarming increase in sniper attacks in Iraq, Marine commanders in late 2006 began looking for ways to turn the tables on an elusive enemy. The result is the combat hunter program, an experiment in training Marines to fight insurgents by making the Marines as wily as the enemy they face. The training combines outdoor skills culled from hunting and tracking with the street smarts developed by police and Marines who grew up in cities.http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-06-26-combathunter_N.htm |