julescrittenden.com - 3/3/2009
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And New Military + Old Media = New Media, but I'll get to that. First, Dave Dilegge at Small Wars Journal has gathered some thoughts on the new media ... this thing of ours ... and how it is affecting the military's lessons-learned process and reshaping the battlefield. He's got ...
washingtonpost.com - 2/26/2009
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julescrittenden.com - 3/9/2009
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Washington Post, cleverly, notes the Flat Tires on
the Omnibus: THE CONGRESSIONAL budget process -- and process...
is an awfully polite word for the current chaos -- gets uglier and uglier. The $410 billion omnibus spending bill that is crawling to final ...
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The Milblogging Phenomenon
Neptunus Lex —
... The legacy media spoke in terms of “they” and “them,” and kept a tepid moral equanimity between those trying to destroy a country, and those trying to build one. Deployed milbloggers put the “I” in the tale. And that has made all the difference. ...
The Difference (II)
Mudville Gazette —
... He's linking to this entry from Jules Crittenden, a late response to Dave Dilegge's call for paragraphs on the new media and military. ...
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julescrittenden.com 1/2/2009 — New Year's Day is a time for reflection, a time for charting new courses. I've advanced beyond weight-loss concerns ... which is to say I've accepted a moderate middle-aged paunch and could give a damn. Like the gray hairs and the wrinkles, I've ...
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Do As We Say …
julescrittenden.com 12/7/2008 — Boston's border control chief busted ... for hiring illegals! Howie puts it best:
This town really does need an enema.
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