We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:53:57 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Heh. Someone else has (openly) discovered the blogs. Worldwide. The CIA. "A lot of blogs now have become very big on the Internet, and we're getting a lot of rich information on blogs that are telling us a lot about social perspectives and everything from what the general feeling is to ... people putting information on there that doesn't exist anywhere else," Mr. Naquin told The Washington Times. It's not just our side, you can rest assured. Any of you who have been reading this blog from it's earliest days will have noticed the change over time where, in... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:27:26 -0600 OPSEC Guidelines ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44336 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44336 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:22:11 -0600 The flesh pots of Olongapo. I had my own bar girl there - who I shared with 100 or 200 other guys. Gone are the days. And so is my ship - The Bainbridge DLGN25. I trained at A1W (Enterprise Mock up) but got assigned to the Bainbridge. I did have the honor of watching flight ops on the Big E when I was allowed on deck. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44219 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44219 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:09:14 -0600 http://www.mooj.com/rxdpt.htm. It's run by a rather weird Punjabi ex Navy enlisted Nuke, and solicits stories from similar folks who've served aboard USS Enterprise. Some of the stories are very interesting and hilarious, but I'm afraid an awful lot of them are inherently unverifiable, due to the influence of strange mixes of Filipino spirituous liquors claimed to have been imbibed by the storytellers. I'll say this for those who have posted there; they demonstrate by their stories the efficacy of Navy Training, and the stern rationality and engineering skill of Hyman Rickover, who insisted that naval nuclear reactors were so sailor-proof that one could come back from liberty in Olongapo City in a Yossarian state (I see everything twice) and still bring the ship's reactors to criticality and get her under way. (Might have had to cover one eye to see one set of gauges, though.) ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44174 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44174 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:32:40 -0600 http://www.mooj.com/rxdpt.htm. It's run by a rather weird Punjabi ex Navy enlisted Nuke, and solicits stories from similar folks who've served aboard USS Enterprise. Some of the stories are very interesting and hilarious, but I'm afraid an awful lot of them are inherently unverifiable, due to the influence of strange mixes of Filipino spirituous liquors claimed to have been imbibed by the storytellers. I'll say this for those who have posted there; they demonstrate by their stories the efficacy of Navy Training, and the stern rationality and engineering skill of Hyman Rickover, who insisted that naval nuclear reactors were so sailor-proof that one could come back from liberty in Olongapo City in a Yossarian state (I see everything twice) and still bring the ship's reactors to criticality and get her under way. (Might have had to cover one eye to see one set of gauges, though.) ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44173 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44173 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:29:36 -0600 BTW I'm a Naval Nuke Tonkin Bay Yacht Club - '66 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44172 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44172 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:23:22 -0600 http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2006/04/ptsd-and-endocannabinoid-system.html and http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2006/04/is-hilton-burning-yet.html I can't find the articles and would like to read them. I have lots more on PTSD and the military including several articles on how the Israeli Military deal with the problem. And another on Israeli research being done in co-operation with a New York hospital. I even have a bit on how they dealt with it in the Civil War. Our military has even started to look at some of this in a research kind of way. I can give you links or write you a piece. Contact: msimon6808 at yahoo dot com ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44171 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44171 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:17:31 -0600 Well, there's compromising OPSEC, and then there's General Embarassment. Guess which gets stomped on harder. Owhell, maybe Lt. Prakash's mouthing off had something to do with getting canister for the guys who came after him.. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44162 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44162 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:36:29 -0600 Of course, the open source info that he's talking about is from blogs of other nations. I think the most interesting would be the Afghani and Iraqi blogs, but certainly translating Iranian blogs or saudi blogs, or Syrian or any of the others is an excellent way to get information. In fact, it was from Iraq blogs that I was able to understand the political parties and militias and how they were part of the current situation militarily and such. It was great reading to find out things that even we didn't know about Saddam's actions towards different people. For instance, while I knew that Saddam had invited Arabs, particularly Palestinians into Iraq, I didn't know to what extent he had given special privileges, provided education, material wealth etc and how that would translate to loyalty to the ex-regime. I learned some things about Syria and Lebanon that I did not know before or seemed very lame from history books. So, I understand exactly what that gentleman is saying about open source materials providing better views of the situation than a few intelligence field agents trying to do the same from limited locations or with fear of being discovered. I also wonder if open source analysis of situations don't get reviewed and considered? Things like the security and counterterrorism blogs or even Winds of Change that regularly discusses political and war situations in other nations. I just learned that Indian Maoists call themselves Naxalists and pose the most serious threat to Indian democracy; more than Islamists according to some. I'm sure the CIA knew that already, but, I'm just saying, if I can learn that, imagine what they can learn. On the otherhand, I had thought that out quite a bit myself lately in discussing any military actions or trying to analyze their meaning or future actions. I prefer to stick to analyzing what the others think or philosophizing (except that I admit I just questioned an article where for the third time the Ramadi Marine's were under attack and somebody said that it was 50 insurgents; I had to question the 50 because that's the number that always seems to be given when discussing enemy numbers and I do worry that some in the military are still trying to focus on body counts and numbers of attackers to prove their mettle or keep certain other folks happy). Still, thank you for the reminder. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44157 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/04/the_enemy_is_reading.html#comment-44157 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:48:11 -0600