Recently in Iraq Category

Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence's approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I've spoken to him previously for the Frontline Club about his Frontline bloggers......more

A couple of days ago, I finished a post on Wikileaks by stating that the media organisation that refuses to play by everybody else's rules is still learning its own game. I promised you more on that and here it......more

This was the second time I'd seen Julian Assange speak at the Frontline Club. A few months ago, the small club room was lined with TV cameras as the Wikileaks founder launched the Afghan War Logs leak. The audience of......more

According to the Daily Beast, NPR and apparently Wikileaks itself, the organisation is preparing to release a video of a U.S. airstrike on a village in Afghanistan which caused civilian casualties.In April, Wikileaks released footage of a U.S. Apache helicopter......more

I did mention the possibility of writing a piece on the publication of a US military video by Wikileaks which depicted two Reuters journalists being killed in Iraq in 2007.But one of my colleagues at the War Studies Department, Jack......more

A few bits and pieces I've spotted recently:1. Leveraging New Media (pdf):A US military report on the Israeli Defence Force's use of new media in the conflict in Gaza re-published in the Australian Army Journal. It's from the middle of......more

Fighting the Taliban in Marjah, Afghanistan.There was an interesting little sub-plot in this article in The Times about the aim of protecting and winning over the population in a counterinsurgency operation. On the one hand these US Marines were being......more

Continuing what is rapidly turning into an autumnal video season here on the blog, I came across this interview by David Meerman Scott with Roxie Merritt, the Director of New Media Operations at the U.S. Department of Defense.    There's......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

Using Google Earth (or Maps) as a news tool isn't exactly new. But mapping all the coalition casualties during the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is a monumental effort.It's the work of Sean Askay, a Google employee. He used......more