South Korea has a conscript army with a morale problem.
"South Korea is the most wired nation on the planet, with most households possessing high-speed Internet connections. Young men of military age typically have smart phones as well. Troops are forbidden to have cell phones or digital cameras with them while on duty."
"The actual pay is about $81 a month. Conscripts in nearby Taiwan get four times as much, and conscripts in Germany (who only serve six months), get about eleven times more than their South Korean counterparts. The minimum wage in South Korea is about four dollars an hour."
Battle Tweets: "NATO revealed that it is using Twitter messages ("tweets") from Tripoli to help locate the best targets for air attack in Libya." "In 2009, the intel system (in Afghanistan) provided leads for about nine raids a week in Afghanistan. In 2010, this went up to about 250 a week. It continued to grow this year. The intel tends to be good as well, with 80 percent of those raids resulting in the capture of who the raiders were looking for, or someone connected with the target. The result of all these raids has been a collapse of the Taliban command and control capability."
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