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If you follow @DoDBuzz on Twitter, you saw some messages a few weeks ago about an interesting facet of the war in Libya: The Navy’s famed Battle Yeoman, YN2 H. Lucien Gauthier, III, who Tweets as @surfacesailor, told us about how Libyan rebels were using Twitter to send GPS coordinates to NATO commanders in Europe with suggestions for targets. The Libyan rebels had no easy way to coordinate air strikes with alliance commanders, so they would Tweet en clair the positions of depots, strong points, or other government targets they considered good candidates for destruction. It isn’t clear whether NATO ever used these Tweets in developing its air plan, but they may have confirmed information that commanders were generating elsewhere.
Fast-forward to this week, when Twitter again played a new role in warfare, as our colleague Bryant Jordan wrote: ISAF and Taliban Twitter-operators got into a 140-character duel, sparking off a battle for online advantage even as a real one took place simultaneously.
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