Social Media in the Armed Forces

There's a very interesting article about social media on the (I am not making this up) Department of Defense website.  The article explains how Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV discovered the power of social media when he was the the military's top spokesman in Iraq. His experiences there made him recognize the military’s responsibility to keep the American public informed, and the importance of that understanding to ensure support for the mission. Now, as commander of the Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth,  he is working to impress those concepts on future military leaders. The Center now has a blogger page and Caldwell  requires his students to blog as part of their curriculum at the center. He also  encourages them  to contribute to the center’s YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages.  His goal, he said, is to help create a new generation of leaders who recognize the power of social media and help the Army change its cultural mindset so it’s able to embrace it.