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Army manuals to be re-released |
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Written by Justin Hemlepp
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
According to Sidebar:
“The largest online library of U.S. Army manuals and publications will restore public access to its site within the next two weeks, after it was put behind a password-protected firewall Feb. 6.
A major from the U.S. Army said in a Feb. 21 e-mail to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) that service to the Reimer Digital Library will resume to the way it was before Feb. 6 when a system security upgrade was installed.”
This comes in light of a Feb. 21 article in the Washington Post which explained “’Almost everything connected to the Army is reflected in some way in the Reimer collection,' said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the nonprofit Federation of American Scientists. ‘It provides the public with an unparalleled window into Army policy. It provides unclassified resources on military planning and doctrine.’"
“Aftergood, a daily user of the library until he was shut out by the new firewall two weeks ago, said the collection offers specialized military manuscripts that do not appear on the shelves of local libraries,” the Post article continues. “These include documents on the Army's use of unmanned aircraft; tactics and techniques for the use of nonlethal weapons; a field manual for non-engineers on the fundamentals of flight; and a manual on working dogs in the military.”
[Sidebar, Federation of American Scientists, Washington Post, Reimer Digital Library]
Justin Hemlepp, publisher and executive editor of TheSequitur.com, is a third-year law student. |
