Leading General Tells Troops to Start Blogging
By Noah Shachtman May 19, 2008 | 11:04:00 AMCategories: Info War
In some corners of the military, they can't seem to stop squealing about the security risks that blogs and other social media supposedly pose. At one of the Army's leading intellectual hubs, however, the commanding general there has directed his troops to start blogging.
Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, who heads the Combined Armed Center
and Ft. Leavenworth, told his soldiers in a recent memo that "faculty and students will begin blogging as part of their curriculum and writing requirements both within the .mil and public environments. In addition CAC subordinate organizations will begin to engage in the blogosphere in an effort to communicate the myriad of activities that CAC is accomplishing and help assist telling the Army’s story to a wide and diverse audience."
Lt. Gen. Caldwell, the former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, is a blogger himself, contributing to Small Wars Journal. He made waves in January when he wrote that "we must encourage our Soldiers to... get onto blogs and to send their YouTube videos to their friends and family."
more: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/leading-general.html
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