Category: War
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Poll Shows Most Americans Oppose War in Afghanistan
Poll Shows Most Americans Oppose War in Afghanistan – washingtonpost.com: Overall, seven in 10 Democrats say the war has not been worth its costs, and fewer than one in five support an increase in troop levels. Republicans (70 percent say it is worth fighting) and conservatives (58 percent) remain the war’s strongest backers, and the…
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The Enemy Among Us
The Enemy Among Us – The Digital Journalist: For the next 10 days I watched daily life of soldiers and locals unfold, took cover from incoming fire, went on patrols and listened vicariously to intelligence gleaned from radio chatter between Taliban fighters led by their notorious commander, Abdul Rahman. His goal was to maneuver a…
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Behind the Scenes: In a War Zone, With Film
Behind the Scenes: In a War Zone, With Film – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: All you need to process film, besides the chemicals, is clean water. However, near the Iraq frontier in 1991 — convulsed as it was by the Kurdish uprising — clean water was in short supply. And it certainly didn’t come from…
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NPR's Photographer Reports From Afghanistan
NPR: NPR’s Photographer Reports From Afghanistan: NPR staff photographer David Gilkey says that the number one rule for a photographer is: never abandon your equipment. But he decided to do just that — leaving most of his things behind except a camera, a lens and a bulletproof vest. What was supposed to be a brief…
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First ever image of IED roadside explosion in Afghanistan
First ever image of IED roadside explosion in Afghanistan | guardian.co.uk: This dramatic photograph of a US marine fleeing for his life in Afghanistan is believed to be the first time a roadside bomb explosion ‑ the kind that poses the greatest threat to UK troops ‑ has been caught on camera.
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Fighting Ghosts And Selling The Good War Or Why Are The Toy Soldiers On The Front Lines!
Fighting Ghosts And Selling The Good War Or Why Are The Toy Soldiers On The Front Lines! « The Spinning Head: The silence is deafening. As American troops are dropped in on Afghanistan to fight their fantasy war, there is no sound from our defenders of truth and checkers of power i.e. the media, about…
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Where are the images of horror from Sri Lanka?
Don McCullin says: Pictures of the beach near Mullaitivu, the last outpost of Tamil Tiger resistance in Sri Lanka, would have been among the greatest visual images of what war does to people. They would have been, if anybody had been there to take them. via TOAB
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On Assignment: Moments Between Life and Death
James Estrin, Lens Blog says: After the explosion, with very little cover, Tyler Hicks ran with Specialist Soto downriver to a creek bed. Five minutes later, they made a run for safety and attempted to ford the river as gunfire rang around them. Mr. Hicks’s armored jacket, helmet and camera equipment together weighed over 40…
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Iraq Through Rick Loomis’ Eyes
APAD says: This is a really great look at covering a war — through a photojournalist’s lens. LA Times photojournalist Rick Loomis takes you from his storage locker in California into battle in Fallouja. The self portraits over time are very telling, and there are some fun stories about drinking Saddam’s wine seeing a woman…
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Astonishing Combat Photography by Tyler Hicks
From State of the Art: In the past couple of weeks, New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks has been publishing a series of astonishing war pictures from Afghanistan. Check it out here.
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Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away – TIME
From Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away – TIME: The highly-classified EXACTO program began a year ago, when the U.S. military’s band of scientists and engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which played a key role in the creation of both the Internet and GPS — let…
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Southern Afghanistan: The Fighting Season – The Digital Journalist
Over the last year, reports have been that the situation in Afghanistan was getting worse. When I hear that I say to myself, “…getting? It already was worse.” From my first visit to Afghanistan in 2006, I felt that the situation had already started its downward spiral; however, all eyes and most journalistic resources were…
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We're Just Sayin: Closing the Circle
by David Burnett We had been lingering on the edge of battle in this small village when a droning noise came out of the distance. Two A-1 Skyraider planes, with Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) markings started circling Trang Bang. After a couple of passes they began diving towards the village. I had finished the first…
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Bruce Haley Pictures – Tao of War Photography
Note: I’ve had some people ask me to put this on the website, so here it is… please keep in mind that this was written over a decade ago, so some of it is a bit dated.. B.H.’s Tao of War Photography subtitled: “Never Ride an Asian Elephant While Wearing Shorts” Check it out here.…
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Tactical Success, Strategic Defeat – washingtonpost.com
Exactly what happened next is disputed, but shots were fired and a man inside fell dead. Four other men were grabbed and arrested. Then the soldiers departed, leaving the women to calm the frightened children and the rumors to spread in the dark. By midmorning, hundreds of angry people were blocking the nearby highway, burning…
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War Paparazzi: Israel's War Against Hamas and Still Photographers – The Digital Journalist
As Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip ended, Barack Obama was taking the oath of office and became the 44th president of the United States. The last Israeli tank rolled across one of the gates from the Gaza Strip back into Israel, but no one knew when or where. That was a moment…
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Contemporary city photoshopped with war-scenes from history
Sergei Larenkov has photoshopped together modern images of St Petersburg with photos taken during the brutal Siege of Leningrad during WWII Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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Photographers’ Journal: A War’s Many Angles
Since I can’t easily link directly to the two slideshows, you can go to the linked article and pop the up. After Israel’s three-week air, sea and land assault in Gaza, aimed at halting Hamas rocket fire, it is worth pausing to note how difficult it has been to narrate this war in a fashion…
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Few in U.S. See Jazeera’s Coverage of Gaza War
In a conflict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct advantage. It was already there. Check it out here.
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Photojournalists Not Allowed to Enter Gaza
The Australian newspaper reports that news photographers are playing cat-and-mouse with the Israeli military as they try to cover the fighting in Gaza. Check it out here.