amazon.com - 1/7/2009
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From Publishers Weekly A torrent of Internet blogs has poured from U.S. forces overseas, providing a unique view of our wars. Retired officer and blogger Burden does not claim this collection of extracts represents a cross section of what's available, nor does he disguise his biases. All the ...
washingtonindependent.com - 1/12/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a
new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S....
forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
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GetAfghanistanRight.com
worldaffairsjournal.org - 1/14/2009
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worldaffairsjournal.org —
Wrong, terribly wrong T he wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, and the political debates concerning the nature...
and scope of U.S. involvement in those countries, have resurrected the “lessons” of Vietnam once again. Far from having kicked the “Vietnam ...
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The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy
thenation.com - 1/14/2009
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thenation.com —
President-elect Barack Obama not only had the good
judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, he argued...
for the need "to end the mindset that took us into" that war. So it's troubling that he ramped up his rhetoric during the campaign about exiting Iraq in ...
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Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right
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From Blog to TV
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Via Blackfive: " Chance Phelps was wearing his Saint Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I didn't know Chance before he died. Today, I miss him. " - LtCol Michael R. Strobl, USMC (Ret.), Taking Chance I included Taking Chance in the Blog of War (Chance is one of the men that the book is dedicated to) and we have followed it's trajectory until, finally, ...
Taking Chance
Weekly Standard Blog —
... of a fallen Marine's remains from Iraq. The blog posting eventually found a spot in Matt's definitive book on military blogging, The Blog of War, and has now been made into an HBO original movie. HBO movies and miniseries tend to be superbly written, crafted, and produced -- it appears that ...
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pajamasmedia.com 12/14/2008 — The war in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started. PJM presents exclusive reports from Michael Yon — our 21st century "Ernie Pyle" — who will be in the country through 2009.
On the Front Lines in Afghanistan, Part Two
pajamasmedia.com 12/14/2008 — As the Iraq conflict winds down, the war in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started. PJM presents the second in a series of exclusive reports from Michael Yon — our 21st-century "Ernie Pyle." (Read part one here.)
What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
Anti-Iraq War or just knee-jerk Anti-War?
qando.net 1/15/2009 — A rmed Liberal cites Spencer Ackerman wondering if the jig is up for some of the left: ...[F]or at least four years, there’s been something of a dodge taken by liberals when discussing Afghanistan. To speak broadly, liberals have endlessly ...
Afghanistan is NOT the Good War
thewashingtonnote.com 12/14/2008 —
I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America's next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
To be blunt, they have been arguing that "Iraq was the ...
Video: Afghanistan Is Not Iraq...Except When It Is
bravenewfilms.org 12/27/2008 — Afghanistan is larger, less hospitable, more populous and proportionally more expensive and deadly for U.S. troops. That's what makes the United States' attempt to use our favorite foreign policy strategy--counterinsurgency--so dangerous in ...
Get Afghanistan Right
dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there. Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
In Time of War
michaelyon-online.com 11/10/2008 — 10 November 2008 The Iraq war is over. Barring the unforeseen, the darkest days are behind, though we are still losing soldiers to low-level fighting with enemies that are true “dead-enders.” Last month we lost seven Americans in combat in Iraq. ...
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