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Follow on Google News | U.S. troops need free access to Internet in Iraq and AfghanistanEvery American soldier with access to a computer can find almost anything he needs. Much of it is both more accurate and more useful than what filters down through the military intelligence chain.
By: TS2 SAT That institute worked solely from open-source, i.e., unclassified, material. It sent the American general a stack of reports 6 inches high, with articles by his Soviet counterpart, articles about him, descriptions of exercises he had participated in and other valuable material. What was true during the Cold War is even truer now in the face of fourth-generation war. As we have witnessed in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, our satellite-photo- Every American soldier with access to a computer can find almost anything he needs. Much of it is both more accurate and more useful than what filters down through the military intelligence chain. Or at least he could. In recent months, more and more American officers have told me that when they attempt to access the Web sites they need, they find access is blocked on U.S. Department of Defense computers. Is al-Qaida doing this in a dastardly attempt to blind American combat units? Sadly, no. The U.S. Department of Defense is doing it. Someone in the department is putting blinders on American troops. I do not know who is behind this particular bit of idiocy. It may be the security trolls. They always like to restrict access to information because doing so increases their bureaucratic power. One argument points to them, namely an assertion that the other side may obtain useful information by seeing what we are looking for. That is like arguing that our troops should be given no ammunition lest muzzle flashes give away their positions in a firefight. But the fact that Web sites of American organizations whose views differ from the Department of Defense's are also blocked points elsewhere. It suggests political involvement. Why, for example, is access to the Web site of the Center for Defense Information blocked? CDI is located in Washington, not the Hindu Kush. Its work includes a new book on military reform titled "America's Defense Meltdown," which has garnered quite a bit of attention from the U.S. Marines at Quantico, Va. The goal of the Web site blockers, it seems, is to cut American military personnel off from any views except those of the Department of Defense itself. Satellite Internet Services for US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.ts2.pl/ http://www.ts2.pl # # # TS2 Satellite Technologies htp://www.ts2.pl specializes in providing global satellite access services. Our core business is broadband access to the Internet in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure and mobile satellite phones communication. End
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