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    <title>Cruiser Modernization: Much more than a mid-life make-over</title>
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    <description>Cruiser Modernization: Much more than a mid-life make-over 
Maritime Executive
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Edward H. Lundquist explains – how and why – From the mess decks to the masthead, from the stem to the stern flap, USS Bunker Hill is receiving a capability-enhancing and life-extending “modernization” availability at BAE Systems Shipyard in San Diego.</description>
    
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    <title>The Port of Los Angeles: Busy, Secure and Green</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 07:33:21 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>The Port of Los Angeles: Busy, Secure and Green

Maritime Reporter
October 2009
By Edward Lundquist</description>
    
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    <title>Navy to Modernize Aging Aegis Cruisers</title>
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    <description>Navy to Modernize Aging Aegis Cruisers  
By Edward Lundquist
National Defense Magazine
August 2003 
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    <title>Navy and Industry Pursuing New Power and Propulsion Methods</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:31:19 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Navy and Industry Pursuing New Power and Propulsion Methods

By Edward Lundquist

Alion Science and Technology


Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Testing IAC, Rome, NY
The AMMTIAC Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 1
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    <title>Essay: Leader, transform thyself!</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:17:51 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Essay: Leader, transform thyself!
Good leadership requires both vision and communication skills
By Edward Lundquist
Armed Forces Journal
May 2007</description>
    
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    <title>FROM BAINBRIDGE TO ARLEIGH BURKE</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>FROM BAINBRIDGE TO ARLEIGH BURKE
By EDWARD H. LUNDQUIST
U.S. Navy celebrates the centennial of its destroyer force</description>
    
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    <title>Maritime Strategy: Indian and American Perspectives</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 08:04:01 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Maritime Strategy: Indian and American Perspectives
Kimberley Layton and Marian Gallenkamp
Research Interns, IPCS 

Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 30 April 2009 
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi</description>
    
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    <title>Navy Strategy of Engagement Builds Trust</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:56:57 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Navy Strategy of Engagement Builds Trust
Maritime Reporter - Wednesday, September 26, 2007

By Edward Lundquist Senior Science Advisor Alion Science and Technology</description>
    
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    <title>Test Site Validates Navy’s New Power System</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2010/5/22/4534721.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:48:36 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Test Site Validates Navy’s New Power System
Marine Technology Reporter Thursday, August 09, 2007

By Edward Lundquist, Senior Science Advisor, Alion Science and Technology</description>
    
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    <title>Hitting a Bullet with a Bullet</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:42:54 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Hitting a Bullet with a Bullet
Missile Defense from the Sea
by Edward Lundquist

Military Space and Missile Forum - KMI Media Group
MSMF 2008 Volume: 1 Issue: 3 (December)</description>
    
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    <title>Good business is good policy</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2010/5/22/4534712.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:33:28 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Good business is good policy
Foreign military sales add to the bottom line and reinforce strategic goals
BY EDWARD LUNDQUIST
January 2009 - Armed Forces Journal</description>
    
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    <title>What can you learn from command?  How about humility?</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2010/5/22/4534706.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:27:13 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>What can you learn from command?  How about humility?

 

Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command

By Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland</description>
    
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    <title>Maritime Domain Awareness:  To Know and To Act</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2010/5/22/4534700.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:14:22 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Maritime Domain Awareness:

To Know and To Act

by Edward Lundquist
RUSI DEFENCE SYSTEMS FEBRUARY 2010</description>
    
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    <title>“Old Tar” Impressed with New Leaders</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2010/5/22/4534693.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 07:00:45 -0400</pubDate>
    <description>Commander Master Chief Mark Davidson becomes the U.S. Navy&#39;s “Old Tar,” symbolic of the senior Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist, presented by Surface Navy Association at the USS Constitution in Boston.</description>
    
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    <title>Book Review:  SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT OF THE US FLEET 18TH EDITION</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2008/12/27/4036894.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:12:32 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>Book Review:  SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT OF THE US FLEET 18TH EDITION
By Norman Polmar
Reviewed by:  Edward Lundquist 
Publication: Sea Classics 
Date: Jul 1, 2005</description>
    
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    <title>Book Review:  Hill how-to - Step-by-step instructions for winning defense dollars</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2008/12/27/4036863.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:27:05 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>Armed Forces Journal
Hill how-to
Step-by-step instructions for winning defense dollars
BY EDWARD LUNDQUIST</description>
    
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    <title>Book Review: STRIKE FROM THE SEA: The Royal Navy &amp; US Navy at War in the Middle East 1949-2003</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2008/12/27/4036860.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:25:38 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>By Iain Ballantyne
Pen &amp; Sword Maritime Books Published in the US by US Naval Institute Press
Reviewed by Capt. Edward Lundquist, US Navy (Ret.)</description>
    
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    <title>A Shipwreck Story is a &quot;Hubris Machine&quot;</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2008/12/7/4010686.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:54:50 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>Ned reviews &quot;The Tragic History of the Sea - Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic&quot; is edited by Anthony Brandt and published by National Geographic Books, Washington, DC - ISBN 0-7922-5908-4</description>
    
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    <title>Diminished Arctic Ice means good news and bad</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2008/12/7/4010683.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:53:19 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>Diminished Arctic Ice means good news and bad
Open sea lanes require more vigilance
By Edward Lundquist
From Naval Forces
Posted at the PMC Website</description>
    
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    <title>Near life-size, built to stress senses</title>
    <link>http://www.yourdefcon1.com/blog/_archives/2008/12/7/4010680.html</link>
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    <description>The U.S. and Japan are working together to develop ballistic missile defense capabilities. Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Edward Lundquist, who supports the Navy&#39;s Surface Warfare Directorate, witnessed firsthand Japan&#39;s 2007 &#39;Stellar Kiji&#39; firing of a ship-base (From Defense News)</description>
    
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