Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: September 2008 Archives

"We need to change the organisational culture of our military. A culture that emphasises control of all pertinent events within our battlespace. And yet the stark realisation is that we cannot control all aspects of this new media..." This is......more

1. 'Bill-and-Bob', who describes himself as a 'citizen soldier with 26 years of service', comments on US media coverage of the war in Afghanistan: "Wars are expensive. The war became tedious on television news and the sensationalization of the American......more

Ari Melber has written an article for 'The Nation' about blogging regulations and the US Army. Not much new here, but some interesting analysis. I found this paragraph particularly enlightening for those that are concerned about the threat from blogs......more

In Reporting War, Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan suggest that the attack on the World Trade Center seven years ago was a significant moment in the history of war reporting. As mainstream media servers struggled to cope with the volumes......more

Captain Matthew Gallagher, the milblogger behind Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal, has been moved away from his frontline duties. According to his fiancée, he's been given a role in Information Operations at a Forward Operating Base in Iraq. In May,......more

The 2008 Milblogging Awards have been open for a couple of days now. If you want to nominate a blog you'll have to head on over to Milblogging.com before Wednesday. Voting will begin on Thursday. There are several categories: U.S.......more

About two weeks ago, Camp Salerno in Afghanistan was attacked twice in two days by Afghan militants. Milblogger Rich Phillips, who spent some time at Salerno, says articles like the ones linked to above (BBC) are useful for the broader......more

[video:liveleak:61e_1219834360] British soldiers blow up a Hercules C130 transport plane. That's an estimated £45 million pounds of aircraft biting the dust. In February 2007, the plane had been damaged on landing in Iraq. It was "deemed unrecoverable due to operational......more

I've been taking a break from blogging recently but I'm hoping to get going again now September is here and those not-so-balmy August days are behind us. If you've been following the conflict and ongoing confrontation between Russia and Georgia,......more