U.S. Army Clamping down on milbloggers


	U.S. Army Clamping down on milbloggers

Mikez

5-2-2007 8:00 PM

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blogging, censorship, security, military, war

Mikez says:

Should bloggers inside the military be censored for possible breach of operational security?

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	Major Ray Ceralde, the man behind the Army's ultra-tight, possibly blog-killing new security rules, is worried about pizza.  Specifically, he's concerned that an upswing in pie "deliveries to a headquarters [could] be an indicator that a major operation is underway" -- and therefore be useful to an enemy.  That's what happened in 1991, on the eve of the Gulf War, Maj. Ceralde told the official Army News Service.
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But all pizza-related OPSEC considerations aside, clampdowns on military speech, and even on civilian speech, are relatively par for the course for American war efforts at least as far back as WWII. (Wartime restrictions on civilian speech go at least back to the Civil War.) Seen in the light of the military's previous attempts strict control of information coming from the front lines of various conflicts, milblogging's relatively brief heyday has been exceptional.
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