Army Cracks Down On Blogs

It was just announced recently that friends and relatives of war zone military members who blog about the war may be in trouble for posting too much information online.

The guidelines apply to contractors, military members and their families.

"This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging," said retired paratrooper Matthew Burden, editor of The Blog of War anthology. "No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has–its most honest voice out of the war zone–and it’s being silenced."

The Army has NOT said you CANNOT BLOG or EMAIL, they have simply said the items must be cleared by a superior officer.  This will make it very difficult, if not nearly impossible for some members to continue with their war Blogs.

We are going to have to approach this one very carefully.  I understand the need to keep track of loved ones, but…and this is a really big and dangerous but,  what if the information a loved one sends to you about their work, or location, or mission or their unit members just accidentally happens to have information, no matter how innocent, that if it got into the wrong hands could cause bodily harm or loss of life? 

We have become so accustomed to having media coverage of battles that we are afraid when we can’t see. Who else is watching and reading these broadcasts and postings?  Think about this one long and hard before you fire up the flamethrower in anticipation of burning an evil administrator at the stake.