How US Special Forces Uses Google Maps

Nextgov: In 2010, Army Col. Stuart Bradin (retired) was in Afghanistan along with special forces operatives from France and other NATO countries, Drug Enforcement Agency operatives and elite units from the Afghan National Directorate of Security. They shared the same broad objective, disrupting the Taliban’s operations, but they originated from different forces, agencies and armies. And the amount of information that could be shared between them, including satellite and drone pictures, was severely limited.

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