Iraq Diggers silenced - my comments in The Sunday Mail
Sun 10 Dec 2006Welcome to readers following up my comments in today’s Sunday Mail article “Iraq Diggers silenced” by Lucy Carne. You may be interested in my earlier posts on this topic:
- Crackdown on MilBlogs? - Thu 21 Sep 2006
- 2/14 LHR QMI at the Ziggurat of Ur - Sun 24 Sep 2006
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Update Tue 12 Dec 06
Following Sunday’s article, there has been international commentary. See:
December 10th, 2006 at 22:30
Mike you have done well on this issue.
It seems to be a case here of “Destroy blogs and ask questions later” as far as the ADF is concerned.
December 11th, 2006 at 16:28
Thanks Huggies.
I agree with some commenters that the front-line ADF units are too busy to worry about this. However, I’m certain that if some of the budget currently allocated to back-room PR spin & recruiting were diverted to developing a workable policy on milblogs, the payback to the ADF in terms of troop morale, public support and easier recruiting would be enormous.