The one interesting thing from this entire story...which few grasp unless you read twice...the Russians got their data from an inside source...yep, pointing towards CENTCOM itself. The type of data they passed to the Iraqis...either came from breaking into their network, or by a human source. Either way, you've got a major issue now. A couple of years have passed now...and it will be hard to track who knew what and might be considered a suspect. And the search might not even be worth it...if it was your network or a bugging device. This part of the story is just as interesting as the Russians being named.
a thought. this "info/intel" possibly "provided to" the russians could have been an intentional misinformation/misdirection campaign designed and transmitted/leaked, by our war planners to confuse the enemy. our forces in other conflicts used this tactic to great advantage. what do you think?
I Disagree.
1) General Tommy Franks said in his 2004 book, American Soldier, that CENTCOM had a very active disinformation team that produced old, outdated, and mocked up data.
2) We know other nations can use commercial and government Sat images to identify our troops, so it is in our interest to provide a false narrative to the data before them.
3) Iraq was not able to use this data to effect any meaningful military counterattack. In fact, they did not display a single military significant maneuver during their pitiful defense.