Recently in Afghanistan Category

Vaughan's new film, Blood and Dust, is below for those who didn't catch it on Al Jazeera's People and Power strand.  If you want to see it on a large screen we will showing it at the Frontline Club on......more

Above is a preview of Vaughan Smith's dramatic new film BLOOD AND DUST recording life and death with an American helicopter medevac unit in Southern Afghanistan. 'These Medivac teams, US military air ambulances, are amoungst the only soldiers that......more

 A chapter I wrote... Vaughan Smith argues that news management by the military is a risky business. Smith founded the Frontline Club in London in 2003 and during the 1990s he ran Frontline Television News. He filmed the only uncontrolled footage......more

Here's my second piece on Channel 4 News, which was broadcast on Thursday night.  This piece also went out on PBS Newshour. They ran it with few changes but here is the link to that version as well...I think the......more

I have just returned from a second trip with the Grenadier Guards, who I visited in Helmand in 2007. They are now in Nadi Ali, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. I was there for a month, but my computer got waterlogged and......more

I've cross-posted this on the Frontline blog. Vaughan features in an article in the latest edition of NATO Review. Vaughan discusses how he got into journalism, military minders and the importance of independent reporting, Managing correspondents in the field has......more

Stepping in for Vaughan here.... and have crossposted on the Frontline blog.... Here's some great news. Club founder and journalist whizz of the old school, Vaughan Smith, is up for a gong at the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards,......more

I have written an article in the Frontline Club newsletter linked above.......more

This is the full 16 minute documentary that originally aired on BBC Newsnight on 26 September, 2007. It's available for download on Google Video. My original text from the evening that I returned from Sangin:I have been out on......more

Vaughan is interviewed in the Press Gazette this week about the hows, whys and history of frontline journalism, “When we started off we wanted to have complete independence, we were paying for our own trips and we were risking our......more