Army blogging

I posed the question as to whether an enemy could gain any useful information from blogs written by servicemen. Nice of Slate to answer the question for me eh?

Scraping the barrel

The parlous state of the British armed forces is now well known. We would have trouble finding a couple of soldiers to man a recruiting stand.

What may now be so well known is that a bunch of in-the-dirt-squatting rag tag untrained militia men had dragged down the reserves of what might be the richest country on earth. Well, richest if the Chinese ease up on the money markets that is.