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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

The Chief of the Defence Staff gave an annual lecture to the Royal United Services Institute last night. General Sir David Richards spoke broadly about the global environment, the response of the armed forces and particular strategic challenges.He argued that......more

I am picking out a few of the more interesting links from my 2011 delicious bookmarks. On Monday, I selected five from my 'war reporting' tag. Today, I've selected another five from among the bookmarks I labelled 'Twitter' in my delicious account.  Enjoy! ......more

This year I bookmarked at least 530 links on delicious. I know that because I try to tag each bookmark by year - I'm three hundred or so links down on last year's total of 854. Seeing as we're coming......more

 The Ottawa Citizen has started a memorial Twitter account for members of the Canadian Forces who have lost their lives in conflict.The account will tweet the name of one service member at 11 minutes past every hour. The name is......more

On the eve of the fall of Sirte, the BBC's World News Editor has revealed that the Foreign Office "strongly recommended" to broadcasters that they pull their journalists out of Libya prior to the start of NATO's bombing campaign. Speaking at......more

Rebel forces have jubilantly entered the Libyan capital Tripoli, although fighting still continues in several parts of the city.For a round up of the latest news check out this list on the Small Wars Journal website.Here are a few articles......more

BBC World Affairs Producer Stuart Hughes recently gave a talk on war reporting to a summer school at the London School of Economics. He has uploaded his slides and videos onto YouTube.Inevitably there are a few slides which won't mean......more

For many journalists, the iPhone has become a standard part of the toolset. But it's also being tested to the limit by war reporters.  A couple of interesting experiments from Afghanistan caught my eye this morning documenting ventures in the......more

The Ministry of Defence is considering proposals that would empower more members of their staff to communicate so it can compete more effectively in a networked information environment. In particular, the MoD will decide whether to free deployed commanders from......more