[RightOnline]

Don't you know? It's all about them.

[toddst]

Don't you know? It's all about them.

10-4! How inconsiderate it is for General Franks to concern himself with conducting war operations over talking to the press. Yeah, right.

[Cvengr]

I begin to wonder if there might be some hidden socialist Fifth Column within the presscorps.

I've noticed how some reporters on the tube live from Iraq, will leak live actions such as, well we've traveling at such and such rate,...we're now stopped, had been under fire, and now fuel trucks are approaching us so it must be safe....on live TV.

If I get this by satellite TV via CNN, I suspect many in that part of the world will also be tuning in.

Hard to tell if all those little bits of info were intentionally directed or merely a data dump habit by a traffic reporter transported to a war zone.

I have noticed though, repeated queries about rates of advance and speed of columns, which would be key intel for the enemy.

Some might counterargue that the locations are non-descript and could be anywhere,...to which I counter,...in the today world of GPS and GIS, digital photography and photogrammetrics, all of those live scenes could possibly be correlated to their pos on the map within a finite period. I wouldn't discount the military value of the info in a dymanically changing battlefield where we are likely to face assymmtric warfare.

The delay of units at small detachments could be too easily used by the enemy to further prepare defenses.

I'd say there is a lot of lessons learned to better qualify and screen future reporters on the battlefield.