The US Army thinks that the online whistleblower site Wikileaks is a risk to the glorious American way of life.

US Army Counterintelligence Centre said the site poses a potential danger to safeguarding troops, protecting sensitive information and "operational security".

Military analysis from 2008 was posted this week on the WikiLeaks website. US Army spokesman Gary Tallman confirmed the report on the website was "genuine". The report expresses concern that the website posted 2000 pages of documents with precise details of military equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan from April 2007, describing them as "nearly the entire order of battle".

Tallman admitted the information was outdated but what was interesting was that the army report suggests trying to expose those who leak documents to WikiLeaks as a way of undermining the website.

Sites such as WikiLeaks "use trust as a centre of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whistleblowers", it said.