Sunday, December 30, 2012

Sunday Reading Fun for the New Year: "Mind Your Own Business"

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CNN headline: Hoyer compares GOP debt limit tactics to hostage taker threatening to shoot child When a Congressman from one party compares...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Gulf of Guinea Pirates: 4 of Ship's Crew Taken by Pirates Off Nigeria

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BBC headline with odd quote marks: Pirates raid 'Italian' ship off Nigeria and take crew Pirates have kidnapped four sailors a...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Christmas!

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From the Gospel of Luke: 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world sho...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Somali Pirates: NATO's Recent Updates

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NSC | Daily Piracy Update : A merchant vessel was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman (GOO), 2435N 05734E, at 1540 hrs UTC on 15 Dec. ...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Space Station Keeps Watch on World's Sea Traffic

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Ever wonder what the world's sea traffic would look like from space? If so, here's an interesting piece from NASA and the ESA, ...
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Gulf of Guinea Pirates: Armed Guard Killed Off Nigeria in Gunfight with Pirates

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Report of an armed security guard being killed in gunfight with pirates here : According to reports from the IMB, last week saw an armed ...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Sunday 12-16-12 on Midrats: Episode 154: Offshore Control and Asia/Pacific with TX Hammes

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Join us Sunday 12-16-12 at 5 pm (Eastern U.S.) for Episode 154: Offshore Control and Asia/Pacific with TX Hammes With significant budget ...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Japan's East China Sea Response to China: A new base near the dispute

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China and Japan are engaged in a dispute over some islands in the East China Sea (see here and here ). China has sent fleets of fishing v...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

China: Japan Asserts China Violated Japanese Airspace

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ABC News reports Japan Accuses China of Intruding Air Space, Scrambles Fighter Jets . The disputed islands are in the area of the red arr...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Missouri-Mississippi River Water Woes

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A lengthy drought takes it toll on the water levels of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, leading to demands for presidential interventi...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Midrats - Sunday 9 Dec 12, Episode 153: "NATO and the Challenge of Relevance "

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Join us this Sunday, 9 December at 5pm Eastern U.S. for Episode 153: NATO and the Challenge of Relevance : From the conflicts that came f...

Pearl Harbor 71 Years Ago

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When an expansionist push came to shove : When the first Japanese attack wave arrived over Pearl Harbor seven of their primary targets,...

Southeast Asia: India, China and Sea Power

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Interesting piece at the Foreign Policy website, "India's Ocean" by Dhruva Jaishankar , posing one of those fundamental ques...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

South China Sea: China's Activity - Vietnam calls it "sabotage"

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With tip of the hat to Walter Russell Mead Chinese Sabotage in the South China Sea , it's off to the Chinese "Bad Neighbor Policy...

Caribbean Sea Space Dispute: Colombia and Nicaraga

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A dispute between neighbors (see the map) about valuable sea space as set out here : While the International Court of Justice at The Hague ...
Friday, November 30, 2012

This Sunday on Midrats: Episode 152: "Navy Next, Interrupted"

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Join us at 5pm (Eastern U.S.) on 2 Dec 12 for Episode 152: "Navy Next, Interrupted" on Midrats Elections have consequences. The...

China: South China Sea Threats and Denials

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China is doing one of its usual song and dance routines with respect to its claims to a large chunk of the South China Sea. First, it announ...
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Pirates: Counter-Piracy Operations

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Multinational counter-piracy operations off the Somali coast are defined by reports like this one from Nov 21, 2012, EU Naval Force and Comb...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

"MYOB"

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So this morning, I was reading Roger L. Simon's "‘Mind Your Own Beeswax!’: How Social Conservatives Can Win By Losing" which ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Back to Blogging!

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Had a nice holiday, regular blogging to resume as soon as I clear the decks of all the other stuff that has accumulated over the last week...