Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: July 2008 Archives

A series of bomb blasts was detonated in Bangalore last Friday, killing two people and injuring several others. Mukund Mohan, a technology entrepreneur, who was working nearby, decided he would provide updates on what was happening using Twitter, a micro-blogging......more

A series of bomb blasts was detonated in Bangalore last Friday, killing two people and injuring several others. Mukund Mohan, a technology entrepreneur, who was working nearby, decided he would provide updates on what was happening using Twitter, a micro-blogging......more

A series of bomb blasts was detonated in Bangalore last Friday, killing two people and injuring several others. Mukund Mohan, a technology entrepreneur, who was working nearby, decided he would provide updates on what was happening using Twitter, a micro-blogging......more

A series of bombs was detonated in Bangalore earlier today. The latest reports indicate that seven devices exploded, in five different locations in the Indian city. The police have confirmed that at least two people died in the attacks. Mukund......more

The man behind the popular military blog, Kaboom, is 25 year old Matthew Gallagher. His blog was shut down after he failed to allow a blog posting to be vetted by a superior. He was serving with the 25th Infantry......more

The Iraqi Navy will not be able to take full responsibility for counterinsurgency operations to guard Iraq's oil infrastructure until the end of 2010 at the earliest, according to a Royal Navy advisor. Captain Paul Abrahams is the director of......more

[video:youtube:SrRsTLC4Gkw] Via the good folks at Abu muqawama.......more

My Frontline colleague, David Axe, has written an interesting piece over at Wired.com about the US Army's use of social media tools. He reports that Army Secretary Pete Geren is worried about senior army leaders falling behind new technology. David......more

1. Standpoint have published an article by a Ministry of Defence insider claiming that the department is 'unfit for purpose'. Though I'll be glad to see the back of the cliché, there's some interesting observations here. Too many civil servants......more

Kip is a contributor to the Abu Muqawama blog. He's served with the US Army in Afghanistan and Iraq. In reaction to the recent deaths of 9 US soldiers in Kunar province, Afghanistan, he explains why he believes the difficulties......more

After her visit to the BBC, when she criticised media coverage of the war in Iraq, Arianna Huffington has decided to write a blog post explaining why she thinks the military surge in Iraq isn't working: "...while McCain and the......more

Despite all the fuss over his blog, LT G has become CPT G.......more

If you want to follow the efforts of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit against the Taliban in Garmsir, Helmand province, there's various places you can do it. There are a couple of embedded journalists reporting on the activities of the......more

The news of this milblogger's demise has now reached the virtual pages of Wired.com, and seems to have sparked further debate about the role of military bloggers in the US. (If you want the back story read my post on......more

Here are some War Reporting Links, a 'new' 'feature' for the blog (hardly 'new', and 'feature' rather oversells it). I think I'm going to shorten it to WRL because we all know that anything connected to war or the military......more