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Publicity Status Changed

More than eight months have now passed since my return from Afghanistan. Today I changed the settings of this blog so that it is now visible to search engines and accessible to all readers (before today the blog was hidden from search engines and accessible to invited readers only). The blog does not contain, nor has it ever contained, any classified information or identifiable names of persons (with the exception of public figures).

Access to this blog was earlier restricted for reasons of personal privacy and security in the area of operations. The reason for me changing the blog to being public is that the validity above mentioned motives has partly or completely expired.

Should you have any comments or objections regarding the contents or the publicity of this blog, please leave a comment with your contact information, and I will get in touch with you. You are very welcome, of course, to leave comments for any other reason as well!

4 comments:

  1. Really interesting blog, appreciated reading your thoughts about your tour. -VSu-

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  2. Anonymous15/1/13 19:10

    Interesting blog, indeed. Anyhow it contains quite a lot of material for insurgents: about the way Finnish contingent work, training etc. As a former intelligence officer, first I was shocked about the blog, but then I read that it had been "hidden" during the operation. Still I would never publish this kind of material. Would be interesting and useful material for the future ISAF soldiers but not for the public.

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  3. Anonymous25/4/13 10:39

    Thank you for the feedback! It is in fact the first and only comment on publicity issues that this blog has received so far, even though I encouraged readers to leave their comments (see end of the above post).
    As to the publicity of this blog your're probably right, but there's so much information out there. The official blogs of the Finnish and Swedish contingents, for instance (http://www.skja.fi/, and http://www.fs20.se/), give in my opinion even more information about what they do, and no-one has to my knowledge raised questions about their publicity.

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  4. Anonymous10/6/13 15:43

    Once again, thank you for great blog. It makes a great diary for you and your family to read later on.
    I still think there is quite a lot of sensitive material. If not exactly military material, at least personal "roasting" with pictures etc. Local authorities would not appreciate it, if they knew. I also consider this blog much more detailed if compared to official blogs.

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