twitterWho could have ever imagined the social networking sites would play the front-runners in real time journalism? For quite some time now the military units are employing the social networking tools as weapons for information warfare. This has been pushed further with US forces - Afghanistan (USFOR-A) being pushed to use Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to break news from the front lines. The brains in Pentagon have realized that the vital challenge in Afghanistan is getting ahead of the strategic communications cycle of the insurgency.
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