Thursday, November 03, 2005

Codewords and an Official Military Guide

It's another post to the Un-Zone, but not related to NaNoWriMo 2005.

Have you ever seen spy movies or TV shows? Stuff like Alias, the James Bond series, La Femme Nikita (a really cool TV show that used to be on USA Network), and the Bourne series. Remember all those cool codewords they used? Well, now you can figure out and translate what the government is really saying.

Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), now you too can decipher the governmental gobbledegook and have a better understanding of what the government means when they say stuff like "Yankee White" and "Xn." If you don't know what they mean, under government-speak, you're an "outsider."
And finally, the US military's guide to terorism in the 21st century. It's the complete and comprehensive military textbook on this subject. If you ever wanted to know what weapons terrorists will likely possess or how terrorist groups are organized, you'll find it here.


Links(Note, these are large PDF files)
The Lexicon of Government Informational Policy
http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/maret.pdf
"A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century," version 3.0, 15 August 2005
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terrorism/index.html

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