How to royally frick up a country’s military operations, foreign relations, and budget from your armchair.

Well, how do you?

It’s easier than you might think. Just leak sensitive documents that insult foreign nations we currently have decent relations with, detail current or recent operational strategies, and the resultant cleanup will absorb enough government employees and private sector consultants to derail a small state’s budget.

It’s called naked transparency, and much like other naked [...]

New Media and the Leaked Iraq War Video

A few days ago the site Wikileaks released a classified video showing a US Apache helicopter gunning down a Reuters employee and his rescuers who were mistakenly targeted as insurgents. The video is extremely disturbing and has provoked a passionate reaction from the blogosphere.

The NY Times blog, At War, has posted an interesting roundup of the [...]