Napoleon once said that an army marches on its stomach, but they didn’t have YouTube back then.  The U.S. army is blocking a bunch of sites (11, to be specific) from soldiers, including MySpace and YouTube.
Why, you might ask?  Well, apparently all the time soldiers are spending on the internet at those sites slows down network time.  Also, the army is trying to protect “information.”
In recent months, the Army and Iraqi insurgents have both been posting videos onto YouTube as mini-propaganda films that show their side winning out.  For example, …

The big news of the day is that a stunning four thousand U.S. troops are looking for three U.S. soldiers who are missing south of Baghdad.  I’m trying to find out what this means, strategically. There are a few options:

We have lots of available resources and needed something for four thousand troops to do.
Those three soldiers are George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube and they have gold.
Diversion from something else going on in Iraq.

You have to admit, it’s a potentially convenient media story.  Of course, what would we be …