The docs were US - not NATO. They illustrated what the NATO countries were training the Ukrainians with/on.
And yeah - I did 4 years overseas in the USAF (out of 10 total). Also the pentagon and finally NRC (DoE). I had a TS-SSBI/SCI and a Q. Some of that time I was in the comm center (in both theaters). I'm pretty familiar with that, and you are correct.
In my experience, when NATO is involved in the content, it is a NATO document. But that would be playing on a level field. How do you control bleed of NATO information through this mechanism to people who are not cleared for NATO information? That would be a classification conundrum. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. We were always briefed as to the possibility of being spied upon by (e.g.) the French or the Israelis. Anyway, I was always inclined to raise my eyebrows at the classification of COSMIC TOP SECRET. It always sounded like something from a Warner Brothers cartoon.
Actually, if it was NATO, it would have been NATO COSMIC Top Secret. (I kid you not.)
The docs were US - not NATO. They illustrated what the NATO countries were training the Ukrainians with/on.
And yeah - I did 4 years overseas in the USAF (out of 10 total). Also the pentagon and finally NRC (DoE). I had a TS-SSBI/SCI and a Q. Some of that time I was in the comm center (in both theaters). I'm pretty familiar with that, and you are correct.
In my experience, when NATO is involved in the content, it is a NATO document. But that would be playing on a level field. How do you control bleed of NATO information through this mechanism to people who are not cleared for NATO information? That would be a classification conundrum. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. We were always briefed as to the possibility of being spied upon by (e.g.) the French or the Israelis. Anyway, I was always inclined to raise my eyebrows at the classification of COSMIC TOP SECRET. It always sounded like something from a Warner Brothers cartoon.