[E Rocc]

I suspect that the resolution of the military's satellite photo intelligence is a lot better than Google Earth's.

-Eric

[GulfBreeze]

Not necessarily. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

If the troops DON'T have the images that NGA has then the NGA images are worthless and the Google Earth images are priceless.

[KarlInOhio]

I suspect that the resolution of the military's satellite photo intelligence is a lot better than Google Earth's.

And a lot closer to real time. I doubt that you could find a recent Islamic stronghold to bomb in my neighborhood when all of the satellite images show trees with leaves on them.

The Pentagon: 38.87, -77.506

What? We're passing out the secret location of the Pentagon to anyone?

[centurion316]

That's true, but if you can't get your hands on it, what good is it. And the line doggies have a hard time doing just that.

There has always been an attitude that what goes on behind the green door is just to important to let those outside the door (warfighters) have direct access to this information. Far better to require them to craft up a request, and then get an answer in the form of "processed" intelligence. No matter that it comes too late to be of any use, all those jobs behind the green door are protected.

[School of Rational Thought]

And hopefully more up to date.

[larryjohnson]

you are correct