WikiLeaks Kabul War Diary

[Muti]

Besides the US polemics surrounding this website I found very useful information on small unit actions for example.

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/

[Abbott Shaull]

Was wondering when this would be brought up.

There are so many place one could go but I won't on it.

I will repeat that with all of this information one has to be careful how much you post. With Field Manuals combined with actual reports, well even some punk with 6th grade education could figure things out if he got his hands on enough intel... I am just as uncomfortable as those who are in the armed services with the amount of information.

Just remember most of the cover ups are by Company and Battalion level officers who wish to raise up within the ranks higher. On one hand, I know they can't be everywhere not like in the old days when Company/Battalion would be in armies where they lined up and shot at each other... Also during that time fighting then usually started at first light and ended at night, where today with technology war is 24 hours experience.

We still run the military much like they use to run back centuries ago, without thinking the ramification of having running operation 24 hours a day and how things have to be adjust. With that said I will get off the soap box...

[pmulcahy11b]

As far as the parts where the Pakistanis aren't really our friends...who didn't know that?

This WikiLeaks reports comes days after the reporting on MSNBC that our intelligence community may be so big and monolithic that keeping anything secret may be impossible.

[jester]

The question is, how many folks on the ground in theater are going to be in harms way because of this?

I have seen the clips of the idiot from Der Spiegel, and he seems a bit to smug. For that alone I would love to bash his face in.

As for the newspappers who are pushing it, tend to focus on the sensational and have a proven bias. So much for objective reporting.

[Tegyrius]

Originally Posted by jester

As for the newspappers who are pushing it, tend to focus on the sensational and have a proven bias. So much for objective reporting.

What is this "objective reporting" of which you speak? Is it like your rabbit that bounces about the yards on Easter, laying eggs and bringing chocolates?

- C.

[Mohoender]

There is no "objective reporting". Reporters are only interested in getting the "Big News" and the Pulitzer or something similar.

Nevertheless, I remained convinced that part of it is true. War is never clean but it's not a reason not to grant respect to soldiers fighting. I don't know war, don't want to know it and I'm equally sure that most troops are simply fighting.

As I said to an American friend in 2003 while visiting US: put two stickers on your cars: "Bring Them Home" and "Support Our Troops". At the time, these stickers were opposed, I never understood why as both make sence. It seemed that the British are better at understand it.