NAC News – Edition 250
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Rod Hughes – Editor NAC News
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NOTICES
- NAC Endowment Fund (EF) Application Submission date now 31 May 2018 – the deadline for submitting a request for EF funds to the NAC National Executive Director has been amended to 31 May 2018. The NAC website has been updated to reflect this. Branches are requested to note that an application must be “signed off” by the local branch concerned prior to submission.
- 2018 NAC AGM – the 2018 NAC National AGM will be held by teleconference and other such media Friday 15 June 2018 at 1200 Ottawa time. Pertinent material will be posted to the NAC website starting 1 May.
- ★ GoFundMe for Admiral Norman’s Legal Defence (Editor – VAdm Norman’s next court date is 15 May at 1400 and again on the 16th early in the AM, 908 people have contributed $110,061 of $200,00 goal…spread the word, need a $ push)
- 2018 Battle of the Atlantic Gala Dinner at the Canadian War Museum on Thursday 3 May 2018. NAC members who wish to attend may register here.
- UNTDA – 75th Anniv. Reunion – Sept 9-12, 2018 – St John’s, NL – Registration now open
- Navy Commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd to open maritime conference
(MSC 18 “Pacific Seapower” on 15-18 Oct Victoria BC)
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CANADA
- Top procurement official outlines how Canadian Surface Combatant budget would be spent
- ★ In the 21st Century, ocean shipping matters to Canada
- Canada and Japan sign Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement to strengthen military cooperation
- PBO: Liberal Deficits Over Next 2 Years To Be Billions Bigger Than Anticipated
- Seaspan’s Victoria Shipyards (VSL) celebrated the handover of HMNZS Te Kaha at a ceremony in Esquimalt April 26th.
- Record concentration of microplastics found in Arctic
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USA & AMERICAS
- ★ Cutter Legare Brings $390M Drug Seizure to Shore (note Canada’s contributions)
- Latin America is the world’s most violent region. A new report investigates why.
- Three hard questions of US maritime strategy
- SASC Confirms Davidson Nomination as Next PACOM Commander
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 23, 2018
- CNO: Lessons from Zumwalt-class Key to Next Surface Combatant
- Navy, Marine Leadership Looking at LPD Flight II Missiles, Additional Virginia-class Buys
- USS Bonhomme Richard Returns To U.S. After 6 Years in Forward Deployed Naval Forces Japan
- Giant Ship-to-Shore Cranes Parked Off New York
- Panama Canal Predicts Fivefold Increase in LNG Cargoes
- Japanese LNG Carrier Takes `First of Many’ U.S. Gas Cargoes in Nod to Trump
- Another Bulker Is Stranded As Grain War Heats Up
- Call for articles: Maritime strategy for great power competition
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INDO-PACIFIC
- Kim crosses border, greeted by Moon as inter-Korean summit begins
- ★ Koreas make nuclear pledge after historic summit
- US admiral outlines new military buildup to counter China
- ★ Grand strategy: all along the polar silk road
- Chinese Warships “Challenge” Australian Frigates in S. China Sea
- US B-52 bombers fly close to Guangdong coast
- The Defence Industrial Capability Plan—two steps forward
- ★ A sign of the times: China’s recent actions and the undermining of global rules, Part 2
- If summits fail, US naval blockade of North Korea looks doomed
- Indonesia receives second DSME-built submarine KRI Ardadedali
- Singapore Awards $1.1 Billion Contract for Phase 2 of Tuas Mega-Port Project
- Can Japan’s Subsea Mineral Discovery be Mined?
- Big chill between China and Australia
- Defend the ‘rules-based order’ in Asia at any cost? (Editor – perhaps questions we should ask ourselves)
- China’s first homemade carrier out for maiden sea trial
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- Russia Orders North Pole Platform
- Russia Says Balkan Countries Joining NATO Threaten Security of the Region
- ★ Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the World’s Largest Ship – INFOGRAPHIC
- Russia’s Electronic Weapons Can Easily Neutralize the U.S. Air Force And Ships
- Vistula Maersk – New Ice-Class Feeder Vessel Makes Maiden Call in Russia [Photos]
- Submarine HMS Trenchant breaks through the ice of the North Pole (great pics)
- France and Australia; where tradition meets the future
- Pilot transfer vessel designed with all-electric propulsion
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- Oil hits $75 as Iran sanction fears mount
- Pirates Kidnap Twelve Crew from Dutch Cargo Ship Off Nigeria
- Counterterrorism Yearbook 2018: the Middle East