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Somalia: More Naval Escorts Needed for WFP Food Ships The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed today to naval powers to help protect its ships carrying life-saving assistance from pirate...
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Navy held firing tests near dolphin stranding The Royal Navy carried out live-firing exercises off Cornwall just hours before 25 dolphins died by stranding themselves in a nearby river, the Ministry o...
Financial Crisis Grows, Russian Kleptocrats Squeal
Russia’s new president is on a tear over the impact of American policies on the world’s finances: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev blamed “aggressive” United States policies o...
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Canadian navy scare off pirates The Canadian navy said Wednesday one of its patrol helicopters scared off pirates attacking a commercial vessel with small arms fire a day earlier in the Gulf of Aden, ...
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UN OKs foreign ships to fight Somali pirates Foreign ships gained authorization Monday to enter Somali waters when fighting piracy and armed robbery - rampant problems along the African nation’s...
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UN to vote on Somali piracy resolution A draft U.N. resolution finalized on Friday would allow foreign ships to enter Somali waters to capture and prevent acts of piracy and armed robbery. ADVERTISEME...
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US aid ships to give up on Burma in days US warships will soon leave waters near Burma if the junta does not allow the American military to deliver food, water and other aid to cyclone survivors, a US...
So, What Is Russia Up To?
In a post at the interesting new site, Russian Navy Blog, some interesting questions concerning Russia’s planned naval buildup are voiced by a Russian military analyst. On the eve of the May hol...
And We Think The U.S. Navy’s Got Uniform Problems
Amid all the kerfuffle over the number of uniforms the U.S. Navy currently sports and proposed changes comes this story from Russia that puts us to shame: Valentin Yudashkin, the first post-Soviet des...
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Russia to build up naval presence in world’s oceans in 2008 Russia’s Northern Fleet will dispatch ships and submarines on tours of duty to various regions of the world’s oceans in 20...
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US pushes for helicopters to ferry Myanmar relief The door is open. But just a crack. Myanmar’s isolationist ruling junta is now allowing U.S. military cargo planes to regularly fly relief suppl...
Medvedev Channels Western Security Community
An account of the first meeting of the “Old Boss” and the “New Boss” in Moscow: Dmitry Medvedev may be Russia’s president but Vladimir Putin has kept his place in the Kre...
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US Gates: Carrier Sent To Persian Gulf As `Reminder’ U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a ” reminder...
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France, US working on UN draft to combat piracy in Somalia France and the United States are currently working on a draft resolution in the UN Security Council to combat maritime piracy, notably off th...
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Russia to create aircraft carrier groups Russia plans to have a fleet of five or six aircraft carrier joint task groups by 2060, the commander of its navy said Friday. Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said that...
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US Fifth Fleet regrets killing of Egyptian in Suez The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet expressed regret on Wednesday over an incident in which a boat chartered by the navy shot dead an Egyptian near the S...
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Cole replaced off Lebanon by two US warships: official Two US warships have taken up position in the eastern Mediterranean off Lebanon, replacing the USS Cole, a US Navy official said Wednesday. The ...
Former State Dept. Official Named as Russian Dupe
For those of you that think the Russians are our friends now…. In what could be the biggest State Department scandal since State Department official and United Nations founder Alger Hiss was exp...
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Congress: Why should each military branch get same budget? The defense budget has been sliced into virtually the same-sized pieces for decades, with roughly equal shares of resources going to the Army...
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Pentagon declares satellite shootdown a success The Pentagon declared on Monday that its mission to blast apart a defunct spy satellite with a missile fired from a Navy warship had been a success. The...
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U.S. shot raises tensions over satellites The shot that slammed into a crippled U.S. spy satellite Wednesday has raised fears of a new arms race in the heavens and increased tensions on Earth. Thirtee...
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Shot at U.S. satellite postponed The U.S. military does not anticipate trying to shoot apart a defunct spy satellite on Wednesday due to rough seas in the Pacific Ocean, a senior military official sai...
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Atlantis to race home out of Navy’s field of fire Space shuttle Atlantis departed the International Space Station on Monday to return to Earth as quickly as possible, to maximize the amount of t...
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US tries to convince world planned satellite shoot-down not offensive The Bush administration is trying to convince foreign countries that the Pentagon’s plan to shoot down a dying spy satellite...
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Navy Seeking to Establish Ceiling for 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan CNO Adm. Gary Roughead is looking beyond the 313-ship plan and trying to determine a ceiling. The Navy is examining just how many ships ...
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Russian overflight of US warship ‘benign’: US Navy chief The chief of the US Navy said Tuesday an overflight of a US aircraft carrier by a Russian bomber off Japan was “benign”...
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U.S. Warships Fire on Somali Pirates in Hijacked Danish Boat U.S. warships fired on Somali pirates trying to resupply colleagues who hijacked a Danish-owned tug boat, a district commissioner said Mond...
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Navy budget asks for 4 fewer ships than planned The Navy plans to purchase seven ships in fiscal 2009 — four fewer than originally intended due to “technical problems” with the Littoral Combat S...
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DoD calls for 7.5% budget increase in ’09 The Bush administration on Monday unveiled a defense budget proposal that would boost baseline spending by 7.5 percent in fiscal 2009, which begins Oct. 1, ...
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Russia sends bombers, fighters to Atlantic, Arctic Russia sent fighters and long-range bombers to the Arctic and North Atlantic on Friday to take part in manoeuvres demonstrating revival of some of ...