Satellite Access in Time of War

miladus writes "Interesting report in the Washington Post this morning about how the Pentagon is buying access to commercial satellites to meet its bandwidth needs. Most of the commercial access will be used for backup to the military satellites and for non-military tasks. And the Pentagon has to compete on the market with all the news organizations trying to cover the conflict in Iraq."

Comments

Re:Good idea

[coolmacdude]

The more resources they have, the faster we can win the war.

Re:Propaganda Control / Censorship by death

[Squelch Oil]

I am not quite sure I understand why reporters think they have some innate rights not granted to everyone else. If you transmit in a combat zone, using communication equipment that is essentially identical to that used for command and control by the military under attack in said country...you might get shot. The U.S military was just kind enough to point out to this reporter what would be blindingly obvious to most people. PS. No, television signals are not the same as satellite uplinks, but hey, she is a journalist, why should she actually be sure of her facts.