A Little S-2 Work Today...

Posted By Blackfive

First, let's dust off the last two posts by Grim and Uncle Jimbo below in response to the Sergeants from the 82nd Airborne (All the @#$%ing Way!)...I guess the main point I'd make is that you could have read the same op-ed written by sergeants in Ramadi last year who may have a different opinion of the place now.  That is not questioning the Sergeants' expertise, character, or intent.

Next, I'm pretty sick of the left wing disparaging General Petraeus.  I'm not quite a card carrying member of his fan club but I do think he's the soldier for the job at hand.  I think this kind of accusation that he won't testify (if called to testify) before Congress is complete garbage.  Dafydd at Big Lizards hits the point home:

...The rumor continues that his report will be ghost-written by White House aides, who are too terrified that Petraeus (Bush's puppet) will accidentally spill the beans that the war is actually catastrophically lost... if those brilliant inquisitors of the majority (yes, I mean you, Pat Leahy, D-VT, 95%!) ask a few inconvenient questions.

Aye, Petraeus may have shown some guts standing up to IEDs and EFPs in Iraq; but he will quail at the sight of Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid (D-Caesar's Palace, 90%) and Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 95%)...

Read the whole piece. 

The same guys blowing hard about Petraeus are the same types who said we'd throw Matt Sanchez under the bus for some serious judgment errors.  Funny thing, I guess being thrown under the bus equates to being one of the top blogs to read according to Right Wing News.  Max Blumenthal should apologize...at the very least for his smarmy "Semper Fi, Allison!" 

On a more official note, there's Noah Shachtman at Wired's Danger Room who has sifted through tons of documentation about OPSEC violations in the new media (personal web sites, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, offical military ites, etc....)

For years, members of the military brass have been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post far more potentially-harmful than blogs do.

The audits, performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell between January 2006 and January 2007, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security policy on 878 official military websites. In contrast, the 10-man, Manassas, Virginia, unit discovered 28 breaches, at most, on 594 individual blogs during the same period...

Last, Greyhawk is on a roll.  This is probably one of my favorite posts this summer.  Read it, then read the rest.

Update:  Pundit Review and McQ are continuing the Someone You Should Know Radio podcasts.  This week is Sergeant Major Ron Riling.

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A Little S-2 Work Today...

First, let's dust off the last two posts by Grim and Uncle Jimbo below in response to the Sergeants from the 82nd Airborne (All the @#$%ing Way!)...I guess the main point I'd make is that you could have read the same op-ed written by sergeants in Ramadi last year who may have a different opinion of the place now.  That is not questioning the Sergeants' expertise, character, or intent.

Next, I'm pretty sick of the left wing disparaging General Petraeus.  I'm not quite a card carrying member of his fan club but I do think he's the soldier for the job at hand.  I think this kind of accusation that he won't testify (if called to testify) before Congress is complete garbage.  Dafydd at Big Lizards hits the point home:

...The rumor continues that his report will be ghost-written by White House aides, who are too terrified that Petraeus (Bush's puppet) will accidentally spill the beans that the war is actually catastrophically lost... if those brilliant inquisitors of the majority (yes, I mean you, Pat Leahy, D-VT, 95%!) ask a few inconvenient questions.

Aye, Petraeus may have shown some guts standing up to IEDs and EFPs in Iraq; but he will quail at the sight of Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid (D-Caesar's Palace, 90%) and Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 95%)...

Read the whole piece. 

The same guys blowing hard about Petraeus are the same types who said we'd throw Matt Sanchez under the bus for some serious judgment errors.  Funny thing, I guess being thrown under the bus equates to being one of the top blogs to read according to Right Wing News.  Max Blumenthal should apologize...at the very least for his smarmy "Semper Fi, Allison!" 

On a more official note, there's Noah Shachtman at Wired's Danger Room who has sifted through tons of documentation about OPSEC violations in the new media (personal web sites, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, offical military ites, etc....)

For years, members of the military brass have been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post far more potentially-harmful than blogs do.

The audits, performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell between January 2006 and January 2007, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security policy on 878 official military websites. In contrast, the 10-man, Manassas, Virginia, unit discovered 28 breaches, at most, on 594 individual blogs during the same period...

Last, Greyhawk is on a roll.  This is probably one of my favorite posts this summer.  Read it, then read the rest.

Update:  Pundit Review and McQ are continuing the Someone You Should Know Radio podcasts.  This week is Sergeant Major Ron Riling.

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