The Big Foot of the ClueLess Dinosaur Laborious-Militarius is about to fall on the Military Bloggers and several members of the MSM have been sniffing about wondering if Mr. Burton would be available to opine on the new restrictions. Right away, you can tell these 5th Column Orc Facilitators not only never read me, Jack Burton, but the only research they can do consists of trolling milibloggers index sites for email addresses.
If they had any idea how the military works they might have written this report On OPSEC Violations by D.J. Elliott and Bill Roggio at the Fourth Rail.
Favorite Money Paragraphs on the Order of Battle OPSEC violations by the Pentagon, Very Seniors Officers and other know-it-alls who should know better. Final score on OPSEC violations: Military Bloggers 5 ---Military Gatekeepers (still counting). HEH!
If they had any idea how the military works they might have written this report On OPSEC Violations by D.J. Elliott and Bill Roggio at the Fourth Rail.
Favorite Money Paragraphs on the Order of Battle OPSEC violations by the Pentagon, Very Seniors Officers and other know-it-alls who should know better. Final score on OPSEC violations: Military Bloggers 5 ---Military Gatekeepers (still counting). HEH!
- Most of the information used to compile the OOB comes from the PAOs and senior officer briefs. By far, these are the source of the greatest OPSEC violations in this war.
- The worst OPSEC violator in the senior staffs is the Pentagon. I get more advance notice from a Pentagon Press Brief of US movements from Kuwait into Iraq than I get from all other sources combined. The Pentagon acts as if it is not at war, and the leaks emanating from Arlington are enormous.
- Multinational Force-West: The Marines in Anbar are so closed mouth on Iraqi Security Forces unit IDs and locations that they might not be there. They are not so closed mouth about their own and their commanders like to expound a bit too much in their end-of-tour briefs. There is no reason to provide a battalion level location and ID of every formation in your Area of responsibility. The brigade manning percentages by brigade of the Iraqi Army is also not a good thing to advertise.
(DJ Elliott is a retired US Navy Intelligence Specialist with 22 years of service and the primary author of the Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle and co-author of the the Baghdad Security Operation Order of Battle .)
