New Twitter Feature: Body Counts -- The Danger RoomThere’s a lot of buzz today about a push by U.S. Forces - Afghanistan (USFOR-A) to use Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to break news from the front lines. For Danger Room readers, that story is old hat: Military units have employed social networking tools as weapons of information warfare for quite some time now.
Smart people in the Pentagon realize one of the main challenges in Afghanistan is getting ahead of the “strategic communications cycle” of the insurgency. It’s the military version of winning the news cycle: Always be on the offensive, set the agenda, respond quickly and get bad news out early before your adversaries have the chance to capitalize on it. “Recognizing that the Taliban tactic is to exaggerate, lie and create situations that cause civilian casualties, I have attempted to counter that with speed, accuracy and transparency in our reporting,” Col. Greg Julian, the top spokesman for USFOR-A, tells Danger Room.
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More News On The Use Of Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube Covering The Afghan War
Military relays Afghan news via Facebook, Twitter -- CNN
US military tweets news from Afghanistan -- AP
U.S. military joins Twitter, Facebook -- CNET News
US military tweets, Facebooks from Afghanistan -- Christian Science Monitor
Blog of War: US Military Tweets from Afghanistan -- Voice of America
U.S. military turns to Twitter for Afghan hard news -- Reuters
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