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Thursday, February 14, 2013

2/14/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board

WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS!

Barque: ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT II, Named for the Oceanographer
Photo by Hans Georg Schroder

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2013

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NAMAZU ADDRESSES THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD

NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst

We have been following with a lot of interest Namazu's on going theme his "ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD. This series started back on January 29, 2013 and continues. In this series Namazu is proposing that all of the English speaking nations form a "naval union" to combine and coordinate their sea power in order to respond to the multiple challenges that the English speaking seafaring nations face. He described some of the issues that are occupying naval resources around the world and parts of his descriptions complimented nicely our own continuing series titled HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM? He described the gross combined naval strength of the English speaking nations in one post and then went on to explain that combat ready naval forces are not the sum total of sea power .In follow on posts so far he has described the naval defense / security value of Coast Guard organizations, provided an in depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards. He is still writing and we have to admit that we are staring to view the series as important, its always hard for us old professional mariners to admit that a giant catfish may actually be a better analyst of maritime matters than we are but then again he does bring 3,000 years of "seafaring" insight to the game. Unfortunately he doesn't have an article every day, in between his posts we are publishing all sorts of posts and tracking a wide variety of news items. We notice that since January 29, 2013 our daily readership has varied by as many as 200 visitors a day, so we have a lot of visitors who are not daily readers. When a series of posts on a single theme extends beyond a week it can be a bit of trouble to find it. When Namazu finishes laying out his entire case we will try to republish it all in one space for easy reading of the entire series. Meanwhile his last post in the series was on Tuesday. In that post he described in detail the Canadian Coast Guard. You can probably find that one by simply scrolling down from here. After that you may have to go to the right hand column, scroll down to the January blogs and click on "January" which will open up a scroll of postings by date and scroll down to 1/29/2013 the post title "NAMAZU ADDRESSES THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE, is the start of the series. The next blog in the series was on 1/31/2013. Then simply scroll up in to the February listings and check 2/2, 4,6,7,8,10,12, look for blogs with Namazu in the title , but also look for How Far Will The Dragon Swim. We are finding that Namazu describes global naval threats and challenges but like us, he spends a lot on time on troubles in the China Seas in making his case that the English speaking and other freedom loving peoples are being challenged at sea. This series is shaping up as a real education in the potential sea power of the English speaking world and the threats they face, with a unique suggestion for dealing with those threats with the least trauma to the English speaking tax payer.
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SCROLLING DOWN FROM HERE:

You Will Find THE FOLLOWING POSTS:

"HAVE ARMED SECURITY GUARD'S FINALLY SCUPPERED SOMALI PIRATES?"
"USS GUARDIAN SALVAGE EFFORT UPDATE"
"NAMAZU CONTINUES HIS ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD, A DESCRIPTION OF TH E CANADIAN COAST GUARD"
HWO FAR WILL THAT DRAGON SWIM? PHILIPPINES ASK JAPAN FOR $110 M LOAN ON 10 PATROL BOATS"
LIFE BOAT ACCIDENT, AN ANALYSIS
NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATION ON THE 2/11/2013 NOTICE BOARD
THE RETELLING OF THE EVACUATION OF MANHATTAN ISLAND ON 9/11/2001 (With videos of the evacuation by boat and the video on the famous extraction under fire at Dunkirk. To older blog posts beyond this point you have to shift the clicker to the right hand column and click on the desired date.