The Global Heat Map was posted online in November 2017, but the information it contains was only publicized on Saturday after a 20-year-old Australian student stumbled across it. Nathan Ruser, who is studying international security and the Middle East, found out about the map\u2019s existence from a mapping blog and was inspired to look more closely, he said, after a throwaway comment by his father, who observed that the map offered a snapshot of \u201cwhere rich, white people are\u201d in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wondered, does it show U.S. soldiers?\u201d he said, and immediately zoomed in on Syria. \u201cIt sort of lit up like a Christmas tree.\u201d<\/p>\n
He started tweeting about his discovery, and the internet also lit up, as data analysts, military experts and former soldiers began scouring the map for evidence of activity in their areas of interest.<\/p>\n
Andrew Rawnsley, a Daily Beast journalist, noticed a lot of jogging activity on the beach near a suspected CIA base in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n
Another Twitter user said he\u2019d located a Patriot site in Yemen.<\/p>\n
Ben Taub, a journalist with the New Yorker, homed in on the location of U.S. special operations bases in the Sahel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course knowing where the troops are is only one small part of the problem their enemies face. It’s not like US forces are facing an enemy with a large air force which can call in air strikes in minutes. I’m pretty sure that they already know where our troops are anyway.<\/p>\n
I hear that there is a way to off the GPS function on the devices, do that so that the Washington Post reporters can get some sleep tonight and stop worrying about the troops suddenly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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