Goodbye CompanyCommand.com?

Hopefully this won’t happen but Starbuck at Wings Over Iraq reports on a recent e-mail he received:

I just received this e-mail from someone involved in an Army-based web forum called “CompanyCommand.com” (whose sister site is “PlatoonLeader.com“). Seems that, with projected budget “cuts”, the first thing to go isn’t bloated programs like the F-22 Raptor or the Army’s Future Combat System, but rather, inexpensive projects which have actually yielded impressive results by spurring innovation from the field…

Again, I don’t know how serious the recommendation was to shut down CompanyCommand.com, but should anyone question the power of “The New Media” on combat operations, I merely direct them to this article in Small Wars Journal. (Includes interviews from Zenpundit, David Kilcullen, Thomas Ricks, Abu Muqawama, and, of course, from me).

Starbuck goes on to recommend that if you have an account at CompanyCommand or PlatoonLeader, log in and tell the admins not to shut the site down.