Recently in Military Category

HERE'S an excerpt from the Agence France-Press story:

SUVA, Fiji--Fiji's military has blocked access to several web sites that contained damaging allegations against the army and members of the interi m government, a senior officer said Friday. Fiji Land Force Commander Col. Pita Driti said access was cut Thursday to the W eb journals, or blogs, which he said were full of lies and a threat to national security. The military-led government imposed a state of emergency on the South Pacific n ation on Dec. 6--the day after armed forces Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power in a bloodless coup, sacking the democratic government. It was Fiji's fou rth coup in 20 years.

THE US military has issued new rules that inhibit soldiers from bloggi ng and restrict their access to websites. According to this editorial, however, military blogging has its purpose. Excerpt:

One of the more interesting sources of information on Iraq and Afgh anistan has been the energetic community of military bloggers. Many who serve i n combat zones relate experiences in Web diaries. Now, in a misguided move, the Army is curbing the âmilbloggers.â Army officials also offered contradictory interpretations of what the new rules require.

LIKE their civilian counterparts, many soldiers have also become bloggers, but of course the nature of their work comes with a different set of complications. Alarmed by the possibility of sensitive military information being leaked onlin e, the US Army is taking more steps to warn soldiers against blogging indiscrim inately. Here's an excerpt from the Associated Press story:

The Army is taking stronger steps to warn soldiers they will be pun ished if they reveal sensitive military information on Web sites or blogs. While the possibility of punishment is not new, the Army spells out in recently published regulations the range of actions if soldiers "fail to protect critic al and sensitive information." Some Web logs, also called blogs, raised alarms this week, suggesting the Army was cracking down anew on soldiers who have blogs. But the bulk of the regulati ons released April 19 mirror rules published in 2005 that required soldiers to consult with commanders before "publishing or posting information" in a public forum.