Interesting to see how a bureaucracy reacts to intelligent and informed criticism, don’t you think?
Sweeping new guidelines barring military personnel from speaking about
their service publicly have been quietly introduced by the Ministry of
Defence, the Guardian has learned.
Soldiers, sailors and airforce
personnel will not be able to blog, take part in surveys, speak in
public, post on bulletin boards, play in multi-player computer games or
send text messages or photographs without the permission of a superior
if the information they use concerns matters of defence.
Following the success of the Tulbahadur Pun VC campaign, largely driven by ARRSE, following the likely success of the Iraqi translators campaign (where the detailed information is again coming from ARRSE), what does the MOD decide to do? Close down ARRSE of course!
Anyone who does post there in future can simply be dismissed as someone disobeying, or disregarding, a superior officer’s orders: or at least of not informing them.
Result! No informed critiques of what those valiant desk jockets are doing in their £1,000 chairs.
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