Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: August 2009 Archives

In an email I received overnight, Michael Yon claims the Ministry of Defence "cut off" his embed with the British Army in Afghanistan with "zero warning and no chance for me to prepare."As I highlighted yesterday, Yon had been embedded......more

So what's going on with Michael Yon's embed with the British Army in Afghanistan?Michael Yon is an independent journalist who has been spending some time with 2 Rifles in Helmand filing dispatches for his website.After writing a post entitled 'Bad......more

I've already added several people to the list since it was first published. New twitter accounts I add will appear at the top of each section from now on...In Afghanistan@ashrafghani - Dr Ashraf Ghani, Presidential candidate.@KevinFlowerCNN - CNN Correspondent.@hamishreporter -......more

Rather intriguingly the Twitter feed for the Israeli Defence Force, @IDFSpokesperson, has offered the world a tweet for the first time in 179 days. Clearly IDF Spokesperson was getting back into the swing of things because the first one was......more

I tend to push most of my war reporting links through Twitter rather than on blog posts these days but I thought this little collection was worth a quick update.1. Sean Smith chronicles three months on the front line in......more

Well worth tuning into this debate over at Abu Muqawama. If you want the background start here.Day One was a few days back now and they're already up to Day Five.......more

The Ministry of Defence has issued a new set of social media guidelines "encouraging" their personnel to "talk about what they do, but within certain limits to protect security, reputation and privacy".In a notable development the policy allows soldiers to......more

Articles like this one with the headline 'Marines Ban Twitter, Facebook, MySpace" have been doing the rounds in the media. But it's important to read beyond the headline. Because if you just read headlines you end up with a really......more

NATO's new Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has used a video blog to call for NATO to be "as open and transparent as possible". Fogh Rasmussen, who took up his post on Saturday and has been outlining NATO's strategic priorities today,......more

Last week, Defence of the Realm blogger Richard North dropped by struggled down from Bradford to London to discuss his book on Britain's deployment in Iraq. Focussing on one of his specialities - procurement and provision of equipment for British......more