Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: January 2010 Archives

The United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says his wife, a regular Twitter user, reminds him to tweet. Admiral Mike Mullen believes Twitter and other social networking sites like Facebook are important forms of communication which enable......more

'Captain Cat' has been updating a blog in an attempt to "document some of what goes on under the label of peace building" in Afghanistan.There are plenty of interesting insights in the Captain's dispatches and the blog is well worth......more

The Telegraph's defence correspondent, Sean Rayment, pays tribute to his Sunday Mirror colleague, Rupert Hamer, who became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan earlier this month."Rupert and I had many conversations about whether reporting from Afghanistan was......more

Cross-posted from my now rather inaccurately named Mediating Conflict blog, this is just a note to let you know that I'll be running the Frontline Club's blogging and social media training course on 1 and 2 February 2010. Hopefully it......more

The Armed Forces Minister, Bill Rammell, delivered a speech yesterday in which he expressed his concern that the information age had fundamentally altered the conditions in which Britain could "project power" in the world.Talking at the Institute of Public......more

The Sunday Mirror's defence correspondent, Rupert Hamer, has been killed in Afghanistan while embedded with US Marines.Photographer Phil Coburn also suffered serious leg injuries when the MRAP vehicle they were travelling in was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device on......more

That's the question being asked by the frighteningly excellent jihadica.com.Citing an Al Qaida statement, they say: Abu Dujana al-Khurasani (real name Hammam Khalil Abu Milal) 'the famous propagandist and writer on the jihadi forums,' carried out the attack in Khost......more

The other day Major General Michael Flynn (et al) published a report which highlighted some fundamental failings of US intelligence operations in Afghanistan.US intelligence, he argued, is overly focussed on the enemy, unable to answer basic questions about local political,......more