Secrecy News: Languishing Languages; Canning the Unclassified!
Secrecy News: Languishing
Languages; Canning the Unclassified
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"We can no longer keep our nation safe if we do not commit
ourselves to learning the languages and cultures of
critical areas around the world," said Rep. Rush Holt
(D-NJ).
But "more college students currently study Ancient Greek
(20,858) than Arabic (10,596), Korean (5,211), Persian
(1,117), and Pashto (14) put together," he said.
Accordingly, Rep. Holt and several colleagues this week introduced
a bill entitled the National
Security Language Act that use federal grants and other incentives
"to strengthen the national security through the expansion and improvement
of foreign language study."
LOST AND FOUND
Whole libraries of unclassified government documents
continue to quietly vanish from the public domain, as more
and more government web sites are moved behind a firewall
to an access-controlled network.
Such is the case with the Army's Reimer Digital Library, one preeminent
source of online doctrinal publications that is "in the process of
transitioning to a new website" which will be password-protected.
Much of it is already gone, like the March 2000 Army Field Manual
100-12 on Theater Missile Defense Operations, which used
to be here.
But those members of the public who,
um, forgot their password can still find the document
here, courtesy of GlobalSecurity.org.
