Re: U.S. Army: Wikis Too Risky

["Joel R. Helgeson" <joel () helgeson com>]

You dismiss the military all too quickly. It is the fomentation of sixth
generation warfare that is countering these insurgen groups online. One
military commander needs to oversee one AO (area of operations). These
warriors fight using real bullets with real consequences.  There is an
entire shift taking place throughout the entire military-industrial complex
to embrace 4th-5th-and 6th gen war.  Oh yes, we are good at it, far better
than they are.  Only our networks are classified operations that the enemy
can't see, whereas we can read their blogs with impunity.

You cannot imagine what all the military is doing. Oh yes, they've caught on
quick.

For more on 4th-Nth generation warfare, check out TDAXP blog.

Joel

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Via Danger Room.

[snip]

They might not build $150-million F-22 stealth fighters, but in other ways
insurgents and terrorists are amazingly tech savvy. For one, they're hip to
using grungy, bare-bones websites to spread tactics and ideology across the
planet on the cheap, transforming once-isolated local and regional
conflicts into genuine threats to global stability. Author John Robb calls
this "open-source warfare," and believes it's the most important force
shaping the 21st century.

If so, we're screwed. Seven years after the launch of Wikipedia -- the
user-edited online encyclopedia that brought the "open source" concept to
the masses -- the U.S. Army is still playing catch-up. The Army's idea of
harnessing the 'net is to launch isolated websites, put generals in charge
and lock everything behind passwords, while banning popular open-source
civilian websites. Colonel James Galvin, head of the Army's "Battle Command
Knowledge System," openly admits that when it comes to the collaborative
internet, the bad guys have a "niche advantage."

[snip]

More:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/army-wikis-too.html

Interesting article.

- - ferg

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