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		<title>Our Disinterest is Piracy&#8217;s Gain</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/our-disinterest-is-piracys-gain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe its just me, but if there is a hindrance to free navigation on the high seas, this should be where the Navy is focused. Rear Adm. Terence &#8220;Terry&#8221; McKnight, the retired former commander of the international anti-piracy fleet in the Gulf (CTF-151), shows stark unconcern during a recent lecture via DefPro:
&#8220;We are fighting wars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11542&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Beyond the Navy Pt 2</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/thinking-beyond-the-navy-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Cruisers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tyranny of distance makes it difficult for our Navy to operate affordable and capable warships. Our need to sail to any point on the globe will always push up their size and cost. Today, our capable warships are spread thin. Often, we must use a ship with more capability than needed because nothing else [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11497&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Navies Looking for a Fight</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/navies-looking-for-a-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Battleships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am never one who likes to say &#8220;never&#8221;. An oxymoron, I know, but the point is I wouldn&#8217;t dare say we will &#8220;never&#8221; fight China or another conventional peer enemy, but neither should we try to rush things along, as Strategypage reveals to us:
The U.S. Navy is looking for a sufficiently impressive foe to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11523&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Beyond the Navy Pt 1</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/thinking-beyond-the-navy-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Cruisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destroyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
Brian J Dunn at the Dignified Rant has an excellent post, Forward … to a Thousand-Ship American Navy, which he claimed &#8220;free content&#8221;. I am going to take him up on this because it is that good. Without saying he is endorsing anything I write here, I will be using his article throughout as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11495&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Auxiliary Cruisers and Such&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/on-auxiliary-cruisers-and-such/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be offline most all day. Meanwhile, please check out an excellent post at the Dignified Rant titled &#8220;Forward … to a Thousand-Ship American Navy&#8220;, by Brian J Dunn. I promise we will discuss this further next week, with a little twist on the idea of &#8220;warships off the shelf&#8221;.
Brian-I saw no place for comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11510&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking-TLAM Warships Strike Al Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/breaking-tlam-warships-strike-al-qaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cruise missile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attack was against Al Qaeda training attacks in Yemen, and according to ABC News, from warships using Tomahawk land attack missiles:
On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11491&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">charbookguy</media:title>
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		<title>Counting the Costs of Modern War</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/counting-the-costs-of-modern-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought this article from Reuters was a good finale to our week long discussion on becoming more frugal in defense procurement:
&#8230;Afghanistan &#8220;is one of the most expensive, perhaps the most expensive, war in U.S. history,&#8221; says Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think-tank. His estimate of the cost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11466&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Sea Links</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/sea-links-111/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special-Royal Navy Faces Cuts
Bob Ainsworth warns of major defence cuts this week to pay for Afghanistan.
British Defense Programs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
British Navy&#8217;s fleet is cut in defence shake-up but carriers stay.
Royal Navy loses 2 ships in planned cuts.
Opinion: ‘Sea blindness’ pitifully weakens the Royal Navy.
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11461&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">charbookguy</media:title>
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		<title>More Questioning the Maritime Strategy</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/more-questioning-the-maritime-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/more-questioning-the-maritime-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Cruisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking I was a voice in the wilderness questioning the USN and its allies&#8217; obsession with fighting land powers in expeditionary warfare. Here is Michael Auslin at Human Events:
The Sea Services repeatedly refers to deterrence, but how would it seek to deter Iran? Would the mere positioning of Fifth Fleet naval assets near the Straits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11455&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">charbookguy</media:title>
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		<title>Carrier Alternative Weekly</title>
		<link>http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/carrier-alternative-weekly-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Burleson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aircraft Carrier Alternatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Royal Navy Shrinks
Your first guess to this question might be &#8220;lack of funds&#8221;. However, I beg to disagree, and instead point to headlines like the following:
Navy&#8217;s fleet is cut in defence shake-up but carriers stay
These cuts mentioned are only two small warships. No big deal right? Yet, the consistent dismantling of the Royal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newwars.wordpress.com&blog=3825415&post=11389&subd=newwars&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
	
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