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		<title>Where&#8217;s Mike?</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/wheres-mike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have been asking &#8220;what&#8217;s happened to Mike?&#8221;, and please forgive me for leaving you all wondering. I have been very busy lately with illness in the family as some of you may know, plus I recently lost a close friend and Pastor, whose life has had a great influence on me. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15620&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LCS News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because we have slowed down posting on the LCS Acronym page (though feel free to keep them coming as the creative juices flows!), I decided to make use of vital space and start posting any Breaking News on the littoral combat ship (LCS) here. Also feel free to post alternative LCS ideas and let the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15614&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deadly Chinese Missile Threats Pt 2</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/deadly-chinese-missile-threats-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[airpower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The principle argument rising of late is the questioning whether China has the capability to build a missile with the accuracy to strike a large warship maneuvering on the high seas. The idea is that since there is no clear evidence of China even deploying such a missile as the ASBM, the need for concern is evidentially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15567&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deadly Chinese Missile Threats Pt 1</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/deadly-chinese-missile-threats-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Royal Navy appears set on deploying its first ever post World War 2 conventional catapult ships, if all goes well. There is a problem with spending small defense funds on a rather dated notion, that in the future large deck warships will be able to sail close to shore and perform the traditional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15544&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking:LCS Contract Lags</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/breakinglcs-contract-lags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Cruisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Littoral Combat Ship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expected before the end of summer was the long-anticipated award of who would build a projected 55 littoral combat ships (LCS) for the USN. The frigate which wants to be a shallow water speed boat is the Navy&#8217;s only attempt to join the ongoing fight for the coastal waters in an age lacking a peer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15590&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Links</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/sea-links-145/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Navy U.S. Navy Leverages DDG-51 Work. Buying Better Burkes. Future Navy Submarine to Stick With Nuclear Mission. Slated U.S. Carrier Visit to Yellow Sea Irks China. Opinion:Worries over US aircraft carrier overstated. Automation Fatigue On LCS Class Ships. Little ship, big job: LCUs offer opportunities. ***** Warships of the World Tensions rising over China&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15570&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strykers Depart Iraq</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/strykers-depart-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[landpower]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven years after Operation Iraq Freedom began in 2003, the US Army for all sense and purposes have left off combat operations there. While problems remain, there is no arguing Iraq is a different place, as Broadside Blog contends: Today, seven years after the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the last American combat troops are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15557&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Virginia Destroyer Solution</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/the-virginia-destroyer-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Battleships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    In the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke destroyer, first launched in 1989, the American Navy finally had an ASW escort to match the large, fast, and deep-diving Soviet submarines of the late-Cold War. Unlike the preceding Spruance class in its initial configuration, the Burke possessed powerful armament, radar, and even armor to match its immense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15532&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DDG-1000:Defying Expectations or Reason?</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/ddg-1000defying-expectations-or-reason-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Navy has been on a downward spiral in terms of the number of ships it deploys, and things aren&#8217;t getting any better, except in some&#8217;s wildest fantasies. The expense of ships rises, while the budget shrinks. Is the future extinction of American naval power so hard to comprehend unless the trends are curbed? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15512&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the Soldier-Farmer</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/return-of-the-soldier-farmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[landpower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The armies that set twentieth-century standards have been instruments of decision informed by a dynamic of closure. They have been intended to win wars as quickly as possible, and with minimal suffering to the states and societies that created them. In the twenty-first century military effectiveness may best be achieved by cultivating a sense of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3825415&amp;post=15498&amp;subd=newwars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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