Le Pentagone a ses propres sites d’information pour t’informer en toute objectivité sur le Web. Et dis-donc : mais c’est que ça coûte une blinde !
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/a-speed-bump-for-pentagons-information-ops/2011/12/06/gIQAbxF7YO_blog.html
The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations.
The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to assess the effectiveness of a series of news and information Web sites that have been initiated by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in recent years in a bid to counter extremist messaging. The so-called “influence Web sites” are maintained by various overseas commands and operated by defense contractors.
For fiscal 2012, SOCOM sought $22.6 million in the Overseas Contingency Operations account — primarily intended to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — for the initiative.
Congress, over the past few years, has been pressing the Pentagon to justify the hundreds of millions of dollars spent overseas under various headings such as “strategic communications” and “information operations.”
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Among the Web sites are Magharebia, which covers North Africa and is operated under U.S. Africa Command; Central Asia Online, under U.S. Central Command, which covers countries such as Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan; and the Southeast European Times, under U.S. European Command, which covers the Balkans, Greece and Turkey.