I’ve come across a number of interesting stories lately about how new information technologies are impacting national security affairs. Here is a quick roundup:
Social Networking
In the realm of Internet technology, specifically social networking technology, we have reports that the “battle for hearts and minds” in the current war has found its way onto YouTube. A […]
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Emergent IT and national security roundup
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MilBlogger “interviews” Army recruiter avatar
A recent post by one of my favorite milbloggers, CJ of Soldiers Perspective, is a great indication of the emerging impacts of new media technologies within the military. Of course, milblogging itself is a new–and, in my opinion, largely positive–development in the history of warfare. In CJ’s post, we also learn that the Army has […]
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Muqtada as-Sadr a Saddam executioner?
That’s what aliraqnews.com seems to be claiming.
(I would insert the image here but, alas, as you can see from the previous post, my site layout does not deal well with images.)
Anyway, the short story is that they have a picture that compares the ski-masked face of one of the executioners to that of the infamous […]
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