From Yahoo News/AP:
BAGHDAD – The black-and-white video starts with a mini-van locked in the crosshairs and the sound of a missile launching. A ball of fire suddenly consumes the van and a palm grove somewhere in Iraq.
"Good shot," says a voice squawking over what sounds like a military radio. Before the one-minute video clip is over, two more SUVs are destroyed by Apache helicopters.
The video is one of dozens brought to viewers around the world by Maj. Alayne Conway, the top public affairs officer for the 3rd Infantry Division. When her unit was in Iraq, her office sent out four to six videos a day to media outlets around the world, as well as posting them on YouTube.
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My Comment: This is to be expected. When a conflict breaks out, multiple battlefields form .... the information battlefield being the one that will impact the most people. But there will be a time in which it will be impossible for the Pentagon to regulate all information during a time of war. Communications and the means to distribute information has undergone a revolution in just the past ten years. I am sure the next ten years will be just as revolutionary.
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