Congrats To The Danger Room For 5 Years (And Still Blogging)

Cyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un)covering the Hidden Pentagon -- The Danger Room

I’d like to pretend there was some master plan, that the site you see before you crept out of our skulls fully formed. But the truth is, when Sharon Weinberger and I launched Danger Room five years ago this week, we were just winging it. We wanted to write about the things we thought were cool: the Pentagon’s super-soldier project; China’s cyborg pigeons; the Navy’s puke rays and lightning guns. So we did.

Sure, we had a few explicit goals. Most of them were quickly abandoned. We slowed down the cracked-out pace. We stopped covering martial arts and quit posting music videos just for the fuck of it.

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My Comment: Wow .... the Danger Room has been around for 5 years .... already !!!! Where did all the time go?

Yup .... I am a big fan of the blog, and it is one of my must reads everyday. My only beef with the site is that they only post a few stories a week .... never enough I say. Sighhh .... I know I know .... quality over quantity.

Here's to another 5 years.

For those who do not know .... The Danger Room's website is here.

Blogging General Reaches Out To Troops, Blows Off Security Fears

From The Danger Room:

While most of the Army is still wringing its hands trying to figure out what to do about blogs and other social media, the two-star general overseeing 19,000 U.S. soldiers scattered across 17,000 square miles of southern and central Iraq has decided to start blogging himself and holding online chats with his troops.

"There are some concerns by some people, based on the nature of our hierarchical organization, who feel this is inappropriate -- going around the chain of command," Major General Michael Oates, the commander of the Army's Task Force Mountain, tells Danger Room. "It is not in fact going around the chain of command; it allows us to connect to the chain of command in ways we have not been able to experience before."

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My Comment: During the height of the Iraq War, the U.S. military imposed restrictions on military bloggers that were stationed in Iraq. I guess a General can pull a few strings to get what he wants.