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by YankeeJim | June 23, 2010 at 07:52 am
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Loose lips means not getting drunk next to a fireplace with a Rolling Stone reporter.
One should not have to lecture or remind a Flag Officer about careless talk. Damage is done in the McChrystal affair. I think a more thorough evaluation of the nation’s military leadership is in order. The military should not be politically charged, though I can tell you from experience working in the defense establishment that military leaders tend to be conservative and hawkish. However, there are a large number of military officers, and surely enlisted men, who pretty much follow the pattern of US population when it comes to their views.
The mistake made by McChrystal is airing opinions at a time when his really matter.
“WRITING HOME
THINK! Where does the enemy get his information -- information that can put you, and has put your comrades, adrift on an open sea: information that has lost battles and can lose more, unless you personally, vigilantly, perform your duty in SAFEGUARDING MILITARY INFORMATION?
THERE ARE TEN PROHIBITED SUBJECTS
1. Don't write military information of Army units -- their location, strength,, materiel, or equipment.
2. Don't write of military installations.
3. Don't write of transportation facilities.
4. Don't write of convoys, their routes, ports (including ports of embarkation and disembarkation), time en route, naval protection, or war incidents occurring en route.
5. Don't disclose movements of ships, naval or merchant, troops, or aircraft.
6. Don't mention plans and forecasts or orders for future operations, whether known or just your guess.
7. Don't write about the effect of enemy operations.
8. Don't tell of any casualty until released by proper authority (The Adjutant General) and then only by using the full name of the casualty.
9. Don't attempt to formulate or use a code system, cipher, or shorthand, or any other means to conceal the true meaning of your letter. Violations of this regulation will result in severe punishment.
10. Don't give your location in any way except as authorized by proper authority. Be sure nothing you write about discloses a more specific location than the one authorized.
TALK
SILENCE MEANS SECURITY -- If violation of protective measures is serious within written communications it is disastrous in conversations. Protect your conversation as you do your letters, and be even more careful. A harmful letter can be nullified by censorship; loose talk is direct delivery to the enemy.
If you come home during war your lips must remain sealed and your written hand must be guided by self-imposed censorship. This takes guts. Have you got them or do you want your buddies and your country to pay the price for your showing off. You've faced the battle front; its little enough to ask you to face this 'home front.' “
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at 07:56 on June 23rd, 2010
Loose lips means not getting drunk next to a fireplace with a Rolling Stone reporter.
at 11:44 on June 23rd, 2010
He did it on purpose, knowing exactly what was going to happen.
He wanted to go out with a bang.
at 12:23 on June 23rd, 2010
I think you are right. He reached maximum frustration. Still, no excuse. He tarnished is record.
at 13:13 on June 23rd, 2010
I believe he was frustrated, because he knows we are not there to win.
He realized that we are only there to feed the conflict.
The more unstable the country is, the longer we get to stay.
The longer we stay, the more money flows in from contracts.
It's not about bringing peace or democracy to Afghanistan
It's about empire, opium, lucrative defense contracts, and the"new discovery" of resources to rob them of.(Afghanistan's mineral riches have been known about since the 80's, and the "new" report that everyone is citing is from 2007!)
at 15:03 on June 23rd, 2010
Maybe I am getting worn down by TKK and the like, but I think the USA had better tend to our own knitting.