Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Austin Bay: Counter-terror ops in the Horn of Africa (HOA)

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Austin Bay at StrategyPage on the under-appreciated, under-reported HOA ops here . "In 2005, Al-Qaida is very much in the Horn of Afric...

India says no China defence posts on Myanmar island, but will verify

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Just an interesting change of mind reported here : The chief of India's navy said on Wednesday he believed a Myanmar official statement ...

Good summary of the piracy/terorist threat in the Malacca Strait

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Nice summary of the terrorism and piracy situation in the Malacca Strait presented here . I do, however, disagree with the distinction attem...

Shanghai Organization of Cooperation Plays War

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Chinese amphibious tanks -Reuters photo The Shangahi Organization of Cooperation(SOC) is, i guess, China and Russia and, as reported here , ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Malaysian police intercept hijacked cargo ship - hijacked 3 years ago

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Initial report here : Malaysian police commandos have successfully intercepted a hijacked cargo ship and detained its crew. After a 17 hour ...

Somali Warlord: Crew of hijacked UN World Food Program ship will be tried

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photo source Another twist in the long-running saga of the M/V Semlow, captured by Somali pirates several weeks ago (around June 30). The l...

Latest Piracy Report from ICC Commercial Crime Services (to 22 August 2005)

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For latest ICC CSS piracy report go here . Highlights: Iraq: 21.08.2005 at 1945 UTC in position 29:43.6N - 048:39.3E, Um Qasr-Khawr Abd Al...

China's Refinery Wars

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Hat tip to Instapundit : Read The Peking Duck: Oil Wars for some interesting information on distortions in the Chinese economy caused by it...

Ship captain appealing ban on carrying weapon onboard

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Following up on a previous post , a ship captain from New Jersey is appealing from a court decision barring him from carrying a concealed we...

Probably time to re-read his books

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In an earlier post , one of the comments prompted me to remember Eric Hoffer author of The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Mo...
Monday, August 22, 2005

Piracy and Terrorism Stuff

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Let's see if I can tie this all together. First, Malaysian ship owners are none to happy about their insurance rates possibly going up, ...

Sea Fighter is the 'key to the future,' vice admiral says

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Navy photo of Fast Sea Frame-1 (FSF-1) meeting USS Rentz(FFG-46) as it enters San Diego Commander Naval Surface Forces likes it. The price...

Jordan Nabs Prime Suspect in Navy Ship Attack

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Reported here : A Syrian linked to an Iraqi-based terrorist group has been arrested as the prime suspect in the rocket attack that barely mi...

What's Going on with San Francisco? Maybe this is the answer

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Recent events in San Francisco have caused some of us to wonder "What is going on there?" It may well be that "Turkeyhead...

Security of Our Ports (and a Little More)

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An interview with the Director of Security for the Virginia Port Authority and formerly "the No. 2 Coast Guard official in New York in ...
Sunday, August 21, 2005

Oil Prices : It's the crude, too

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Nice piece from Econbrowser on the effect of sweet and sour crude and oil prices. Light sweet crude is easier and less expensive to refine ...
Saturday, August 20, 2005

Navy, Marine Helicopter Fleets- "A Growth Industry"

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Seahawk and Hellfire National Defense reports here : Rotary aviation in the Navy and Marine Corps will be a growth industry for some time, s...

USS Iowa Banned from San Francisco, Moves to Stockton

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In a silly and immature protest of some sort, the governing body of San Francisco rejects a plan to put the decommissioned battleship USS Io...

Michael Yon's Latest from Iraq "Proximity Delays"

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Read it here .

Coast Guard Port Security Unit

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After the Aqaba flap, naturally, attention might turn to Port Security here at home, as in this report from San Francisco here on a Port Se...