Americas Army is a computer game that was created as a recruiting tool. It is not meant to teach tactics and it is not officially a forum for real soldiers to discuss such tactics. The game is also supported by a community web site similar to this We site. The amazing thing about the site is that over 230,000 people have registered on it. As of today, the site shows the following statistics. Total Users: 231,734 Avg. New Users (day): ...     Read entire post

Before we start to talk about the military sharing data through a social network, we probably need to get some facts straight concerning "The Internet". As popularly used this term refers to all infrastructure and local networks that people are able to surf to with a browser. However, the digital world is far from unified into a huge neighborhood where you can just surf up to anyone's door and see what they have in their livingroom. There is certainly a huge volume of information that ...     Read entire post

You are probably wondering how this site contains a blog referring to the Army and the military. Well it all started when Fortune published an article on the growth of Facebook. They released stats on the largest communities that are using the application. The US Army was the largest community with 43,000 self-identified users in Facebook (http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/24/technology/facebook.fortune/index3.htm). They were followed by the Navy, Air Force, and IBM. If Army personnel are using Face ...     Read entire post