Army sees benefits in social-media presence

Social-networking tools are playing an increasingly important part of the U.S. Army's strategy for communicating with the public, despite the inherent security risks, according to Lt. Col. Kevin Arata, director of the U.S. Army's Online and Social Media Division. Those security risks continue to be the subject of considerable debate within the Defense Department, but the U.S. Army nevertheless is seeing important benefits in using social-media applications such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Arata said.

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