Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: June 2009 Archives

Here in the bunker – it is a rather swish conference room but there’s a serious shortage of natural light – we’ve been looking at new media and strategic communications. In a moment, three themes from the session and the......more

If you were following the blog yesterday I decided to enjoy the sunshine...Here's a photo of Alastair Campbell addressing the conference yesterday. After a question and answer session with Campbell on various topics including Iraq, Kosovo and Afghanistan, we moved......more

...so there's been a bit of a delay getting the necessary wireless access, but we're good to go now. We're also under the Chatham House Rule so observations will be general rather than specific.  Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /*......more

I'll soon be heading into London for a two-day conference where participants will be discussing strategic communications from various organisational perspectives - military, international, humanitarian, and media. On today's agenda we have:- A key note from Nik Gowing on the 'new......more

The Washington Post appears to have inaccurately reported that "the Twitter interface does not support the use of Farsi".The 'fact' that Twitter didn't support Farsi was news to me because I have been watching tweets come into my Twitter feed......more

Over on Slate Jack Shafer is concerned that his "cognitive colander isn't big enough to strain out Iran information" on Twitter. For the last couple of days I've been tracking what has been going on in Iran and suffering from......more

The same deal as yesterday but today instead: Al Jazeera EnglishJournalist uses Twitter to get commentary on Iran. BBCChanging the website to green was NOT a gesture of support to the protesters.Director of Global News says UGC offers authenticity to BBC coverage.Have......more

This is a list of links I've been collecting on media coverage of the Iran election protests. It's far from complete but it's a start at least and hopefully it helps identify some of the main themes that are emerging. To......more

Population-centric approaches to counterinsurgency warfare emphasise the importance of protecting the local people rather than killing the enemy.When war takes place among the people, using military force is problematic so the priority is to win the support of the local......more

'Afghan Kush' is a U.S. Infantry soldier currently deployed in Zabul province, Afghanistan. His unit, 1-4 Infantry, have been involved in some fighting recently around two forward operating bases.In a recent post, Afghan Kush writes about his front line involvement......more

"I could not write about the past week without mentioning the tragic death of Rifleman Adrian Sheldon. Shelly was a much loved member of the Fire Support Platoon here at FOB [Forward Operating Base] Inkerman and his loss has......more

A few war reporting links to keep you moderately entertained while I put together a hopefully more enlightening post. (I was hoping to have it for today, but there's been a slight delay.)1. Hello, Twitter: Goodbye, McKiernan. The US military......more