BBC Gets its knickers in a twist.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

This IS an interesting article. It addresses a couple of issues that may be of importance:

1) The US has spent some time and effort exploring how the Internet changes information dissemination in the modern era.

2) The US would like to be able to shut down communication (phone, cell, networks) wherever it wants.

The first item is remarkable only in that it makes the Pentagon appear somewhat more tech-savvy than most people would have guessed. The second item, which the BBC piece seems to be terrified by could only come as a surprise to people that don't understand anything at all about warfare. OF COURSE they want to be able to shut down all communications in any and all locations they deem operationally important. Every military through history has sought that capacity.

Why the BBC acts like it's some totally unreasonable and heretofore unheard-of objective is beyond me. Unless, of course, what you really want to do is a little Anti-American muck-raking...