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I would not worry too much about the information dissemination put out by
this site.
Follow the lead of 'Nuclear capability of Israel'. So inaccurate it is
funny.
Art
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grauwolf" <grauwulf-at-yahoo.com>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:42 AM
Subject: Too Much Information?
> Greetings All,
>
> Okay, maybe I'm just a little to much old school military, but "back
> in the day" you made a point of never revealing ANY information that
> may someday come back to bite you on the backside. Not speeds, weapons,
> armor, the present operating conditions of the ship, etc. We were
> instilled with pat lines such as, "I can neither confirm nor deny the
> presence aboard of, nor the capability of this vessel to deploy any
> form of nuclear weapon." Among others. (In fact I think that one was
> suppose to make the folks down in Australia feel better about our ship,
> but they still never let us dock at Perth. Go figure. --LOL)
> Anyway, the other day I was bouncing around the net looking for some
> basic photos and/or information regarding some of the LAV variations
> our forces employ when I came up with a rather interesting site. At the
> time, all I could think of was, "WOW, this is great!" Yet the more I
> looked at things, the more uncomfortable I started to get. That "Old
> School" thing was kicking in. This site has got a lot of very detailed
> information on just about everything that has to do with our equipment
> and the equipment of other countries around the world. Among a host of
> other topics.
> Yeah, I know, "Freedom of Information" and all that, but it just
> seemed to me to be more information than should be readily available to
> "anyone" who could gain access to the internet.
> Okay, so I figured that maybe this was "Safe Stuff". Outdated/not
> entirely as accurate as it might at first appear/and so on, and of
> course I'm just being overly paranoid. But,.... I don't know. What do
> you all think?
>
> Federation of American Scientists
> http://www.fas.org/index.html
>
>
> Dan
> (Paranoia is only living in a very heightened state of awareness. Just
> because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they ain't out to get ya.)
>
>
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