From: Rich Gauszka 

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/army_bloggers

The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending
personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a
superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19,
is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of
the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops
who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the need for wartime discretion
against the opportunities for the public to personally connect with some of
the most effective advocates for the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq --
the troops themselves. The secret-keepers have generally won the argument,
and the once-permissive atmosphere has slowly grown more tightly regulated.
Soldier-bloggers have dropped offline as a result.

The new rules (.pdf)

http://blog.wired.com/defense/files/army_reg_530_1_updated.pdf

obtained by Wired News require a commander be consulted before every blog update.

"This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging," said
retired paratrooper Matthew Burden, editor of The Blog of War anthology.
"No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the
combat zone. This is the best PR the military has -- it's most honest voice
out of the war zone. And it's being silenced."

Army Regulation 530--1: Operations Security (OPSEC) (.pdf) restricts more
than just blogs, however. Previous editions of the rules asked Army
personnel to "consult with their immediate supervisor" before
posting a document "that might contain sensitive and/or critical
information in a public forum." The new version, in contrast, requires
"an OPSEC review prior to publishing" anything -- from "web
log (blog) postings" to comments on internet message boards, from
resumes to letters home.

Failure to do so, the document adds, could result in a court-martial, or
"administrative, disciplinary, contractual, or criminal action."

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