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Some nice visual interpretations of a statistical analysis of the WikiLeaks Afghan leak. Below is an image of the growing spread of combat from 2004 to 2009. “It’s one thing to read about individual Taliban attacks in WikiLeaks’ trove of war logs. It’s something quite different to see the bombings and the shootings mount, and watch [...] (via ProPublica) A Reading List to Put the WikiLeaks ‘War Logs’ in Context by Nicholas Kusnetz and Karen Weise This morning, the New York Times, England’s The Guardian and Germany’s Der Spiegel published reports on what’s been termed the ‘War Logs’ — nearly 92,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan made public by WikiLeaks. [...] Thomas Ricks military and defense blog at Foreign Policy has a regular feature by Rebecca Frankel about the dogs in the military. Rebecca’s war dog of the week. Presently, the United States has 28,000 dogs enrolled in military service, “the largest canine force in the world.” Here’s the Rolling Stone article that got McChrystal in such hot water. It sounds like Joe Biden is the only person in the Obama administration or the Pentagon that wants to end the war in Afghanistan. “Vice President Biden, … argued that a prolonged counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan would plunge America into a military quagmire without [...] Why doesn’t the Pentagon buy their gas from a US company? “BP holds more than $2 billion in annual US defense contracts and continues to be the premiere provider of fuel to the world’s largest consumer of oil and gas: the Pentagon.” Via “Fueling War: Pentagon Still Buying Most of Its Oil and Gas from BP” at [...] Foreign Service Officer and former Marine Corps Captain Matthew Hoh resigns and his resignation letter causes a stir. “I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.” Me too! What’s the point again? Way [...] Feingold recommends pursuing the GWOT without occupying Afghanistan. “Announcing a flexible timetable for when our massive military presence will end would be one of the best things we could do to advance our national security interests in Afghanistan. By doing so, we would undercut the misperception of the U.S. as an occupying force that has propped [...] The Department of Defense is the latest federal government web site to get a 21st-century make-over. You can be-fan the DoD on FaceBook, follow it on Twitter, watch its YouTubes, look at its Flickr, or read the blog. I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong. If there’s one thing computers do well, it’s understand human behavior. Oh, wait, even HUMANS have a hard time understanding human behavior. “In a new request for research proposals aimed at small businesses, the Pentagon says it wants technology that would “enable accurate forecasting of a given [...] Wired’s Danger Room reports on a forthcoming report from the National Defense University about integrating social networking philosophies into the military. Wired’s conclusion – “it actually makes some sense,” and “makes some smart, if basic, suggestions for how government types might uses the tools.” Four key points the report covers are: 1. Inward Sharing – [...] |
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