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...Already Naval officers are privately crowing that the Afghan war has been practically an all-Navy show. Fully ninety percent of the air sorties have been flown by carrier-based planes, and the largest ground contingent in Afghanistan is the Marines, who are part of the Department of the Navy. Navy men privately fumed during the 1991 Desert Storm War because the Air Force dominated the air war. But in Afghanistan, "this is the Navy's war," one sea-going officer said proudly...
...Washington took the possibility that al-Qaeda could regroup in Somalia seriously enough to start patrolling the sea lanes a month ago. Forces from an allied flotilla stop and search 30 to 40 ships a day to make sure no fugitive terrorists are sneaking across. Naval vessels that can intercept communications hover in the Arabian Sea to cut off al-Qaeda messages and disrupt possible supply shipments...
...apply to anyone who intimidates or coerces the government through criminal activity that is dangerous to human life. That could mean getting into a heated fight with a police officer at an antiglobalism protest. "If you're a member of Greenpeace and Greenpeace sails a ship into an American naval vessel, you can find yourself covered under the definition of international terrorist," says Mort Halperin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and onetime head of the A.C.L.U.'s Washington office. "You could be subject to secret searches of your home, to wiretaps under much less stringent standards...
...nearly 60 years, the U.S. Navy has conducted naval exercises in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Day and night, naval officers perform aerial bombings and missile tests on part of a populated American commonwealth. The residents of Puerto Rico have made their opinion quite clear, regularly voting the Navy out while protesting violently through intrusions on the Navy target range. But the Navy continues bombing. The fact that America is a superpower does not give the U.S. military permission to take over a populated island and pollute it for the purpose of strengthening the armed forces...
Harvard football coach Tim Murphy is the leading candidate for the head coaching job at the U.S. Naval Academy and could be hired within the next week, according to recent reports...