Category: War

  • Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded | dvafoto

    Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded

  • Afghanistan, July, 2010 – The Big Picture

    Afghanistan, July, 2010 – The Big Picture

    Afghanistan, July, 2010 This past month, much of the attention focused on Afghanistan centered on the release of thousands of classified documents from the war effort by WikiLeaks. While the consensus appears to be that nothing significantly new was revealed by the release, the via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html This past month, much of the attention focused…

  • Op-Ed – Protecting America’s Afghan Allies

    Op-Ed – Protecting America’s Afghan Allies

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    Opinion | No Afghan Ally Left Behind How to learn from our failure to help our Vietnamese friends. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/opinion/31topping.html?_r=1 A TALIBAN spokesman announced Thursday that the group is poring over the tens of thousands of classified military documents published by WikiLeaks this week, looking for the names of pro-American Afghans. As in the past,…

  • Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us | Danger Room

    Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us | Danger Room

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    Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us There’s been a lot of talk about the danger posed by WikiLeaks’s disclosure of tens of thousands of military documents from Afghanistan. But so far, our cyber-sleuths aren’t seeing a lot of chatter on the Takfiri side of the internet. One notable exceptio via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/insurgent-leader-on-wikileaks-now-you-tell-us/ so…

  • Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"

    Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"

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    Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: “largest intelligence leak in history” An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghani… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/25/wikileaks-releases-c.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 An archive of classified U.S. military logs…

  • The War Logs – NYTimes.com

    The War Logs – NYTimes.com

    The War Logs – WikiLeaks Documents Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html A trove of military documents made public on Sunday by an organization called WikiLeaks reflects deep suspicions among American officials that Pakistan’s military spy service has for years guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from…

  • Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq – At War

    Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq – At War

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    Embedistan: Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq I didn’t want the Pentagon to write this story like a screenplay, with expert scene-setting, and the temptation, irresistible in conflict, to manipulate reality. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/unembedded-in-saddams-iraq/ I didn’t want the Pentagon to write this story like a screenplay, with expert scene-setting, and the temptation, irresistible in conflict,…

  • Speak No Evil: A Post-McChrystal Press Clampdown – At War

    So I started to chat up soldiers. Just as I had finished the formalities of name, age, rank and hometown with a young private from Michigan, I was interrupted by an officer who explained that a handful of soldiers had been chosen to speak to the press, and that the remainder of the group was…

  • Embedistan – At War

    Embedistan – At War

    Embedistan What skeptics fear is that reporters come to identify with the military to such an extent that they no longer have the will, even if they have the means, to report bad news. Whether conscious of it or not, they self-censor. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/embedistan-2/ What such skeptics fear is that reporters come…

  • Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago – The Big Picture

    Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago – The Big Picture

    Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago This Friday, June 25th, it will have been sixty years since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950. After decades of Japanese occupation, Korea was divided in two by Allied Forces at the end of World War II, with the south administered by the U.S. and th…

  • Uzbin Valley – VII

    Eric Bouvet: Deep within the treacherous terrain of the Uzbin Valley, young soldiers of the French International Security Assistance Force had a mission to fulfill: to take the valley, the same valley that saw a dozen French soldiers killed in an ambush by Afghan militants in August 2008. During the course of six months, the…

  • “Restrepo” and the Imagery of War – Lens

    “Restrepo” and the Imagery of War – Lens

    ‘Restrepo’ and the Imagery of War With the premier nearing of his documentary, “Restrepo,” Tim Hetherington takes time to talk with Michael Kamber about the future of photojournalism. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/behind-44/ The documentary “Restrepo,” directed by Mr. Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, will open Friday. Last week, Mr. Hetherington sat down with Mr. Kamber in…

  • Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago – The Big Picture

    Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago – The Big Picture

    Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago Yesterday was June 6th, the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by over 5,000 ships, via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/remembering_d-day_66_years_ago.html Yesterday was June 6th, the 66th…

  • Pentagon tries to steer media coverage on Iraq

    Pentagon tries to steer media coverage on Iraq

    Pentagon tries to steer media coverage on Iraq Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/24/AR2010052403839.html?wprss=rss_world Before interviews with USF-I commanders or spokesmen, the contractor will have the task of talking with reporters (“pre-engagement with media outlets to determine the nature of the interview and the questions that will be asked by the media during the interview . . . to…

  • Knowing Where to Step, Gingerly, in Iraq – Lens

    Patrick Baz: It was pure luck. I had to get the right fixer. I speak Arabic and I knew how to make my way through. The thing with dictators or with dictatorships is that they make you believe that you are not allowed to. You start self-censoring. It is amazing because nobody would stop you…

  • Book Review – War – By Sebastian Junger – NYTimes.com

    Book Review – War – By Sebastian Junger – NYTimes.com

    ‘Nothing to Do but Kill and Wait’ The author of “The Perfect Storm” spent months with American soldiers in a lethal corner of Afghanistan and details their intense lives in this original account. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/books/review/Filkins-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The best way to describe Junger’s book is to say what it is not. “War” does not attempt to explain…

  • Advice for first-time embeds to Afghanistan

    Over the past year I have been emailed frequently by photographers inquiring the “how to’s” of embedding to Afghanistan, especially those who are first-timers. I wrote very similar emails like this to very experienced colleagues (such as Alan Chin, John Moore, and Teru Kuwayama, to name a few) before I embedded for the first time…

  • Krista Wortendyke: (re): media series – new work

    Krista Wortendyke: (re): media series – new work

    (re): media series – new work Here are the images that are currently part of (re): media at Packer Schopf Gallery (re): media-untitled_021 (re): media-untitled_020 (… Link: http://kwortendyke.blogspot.com/2009/07/re-media.html Although most of us have never experienced war, we are surrounded by its imagery. This project is an exploration of the way that imagery and information from…

  • David Finkel on The Good Soldiers: “I’m not obligated to these men, but I do want to tell a story that they recognize” – Nieman Storyboard – A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

    Nieman Storyboard Tests & Reviews via Nieman Storyboard: http://niemanstoryboard.us/2010/05/03/david-finkel-on-the-good-soldiers-the-obligation-is-to-the-story/ Tomorrow, Washington Post national enterprise editor David Finkel will receive the 2010 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Good Soldiers, a bruising account of a U.S. Army battalion’s service in Iraq during 2007 and 2008. The $10,000 prize, announced by the Nieman Foundation and Columbia…

  • The Consequences of War – VII The Magazine

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    In a very personal interview with VII The Magazine, photographer Ashley Gilbertson, opens up about the effects of war on soldiers and their families, himself, and the country. Link: VII The Magazine