Category: War
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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.
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"Vietnam: Unseen War, Pictures From the Other Side"
Documentary (2002). “Many Americans think they know the full story of the Vietnam War, but there’s a side of the conflict few of them have seen — how the North Vietnamese media covered the war. National Geographic Video: Vietnam’s Unseen War is a documentary hosted by photographer Tim Page, who visits former soldiers and journalists…
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THE MOST DOPED UP SOLDIERS THIS SIDE OF THE HINDU KUSH
Vice: There’s a long history of soldiers taking things like speed to improve their fighting, but smoking weed in combat seems really counterintuitive, right? You’d think so, but as I say to one of the main soldiers in the series with Jack, “Normally, that would make you more cautious, wouldn’t it?” And he said “Yeah,…
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Vice Magazine: CREATIVE 30 – CLANCY CHASSAY
Today we meet Clancy Chassay, 28, multimedia journalist from London. Check it out here.
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THE DOODLES OF WAR – Bloodthirsty Child Soldiers Tag Liberia
The child soldiers of Liberia have taken street art to another level. Tim Hetherington, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year in 2007, took these terrifying photos during the blood-drenched civil war over there a few years back. The childlike scrawls of rape, violence and intimidation are pretty grim, but it all gets…
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Book Review – 'The Angel of Grozny – Orphans of a Forgotten War,' by Asne Seierstad
They steal, they hit, they kill dogs. And for New Year, they decorate the holiday tree in the backyard with the skeleton of a Russian soldier. After some 14 years of war, terror and lawlessness, the children of Chechnya have been damaged in ways outsiders can barely fathom. Even now, with the war part of…
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Perpignan Friday Conference on Conflict Photography
comments from the press conference this morning with Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Lucas Menget, and Patrick Robert — the conflict journalist’s speak. These photographers have all made incredible images in the most difficult places imaginable Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Did Fake Photos Skew Georgian War Coverage?
CLICK NOTE: After looking at all of the photos in question, this looks to me like a bullshit accusation. Several blogs are reporting that images by wire-service photographers from the conflict between Russia and Georgia were staged. Check it out here.
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Shooting War: graphic novel about blogger embedded in Baghdad – Boing Boing
Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman’s Shooting War is one of the strongest graphic novels I’ve read in years, a tough anti-war comic that provides trenchant, spot-on commentary about the relationship of the news-media to all sides of modern war. Check it out here.
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An Uncertain Death Toll In Georgia-Russia War – washingtonpost.com
As they fled, rumors rose like smoke and clouded the air: Cossack, Ossetian and Chechen “irregulars” had razed Georgian villages, committed mass rapes, rounded up all the young people and marched them off to a concentration camp. Women vowed to drink poison rather than be captured alive. On the other side, Ossetians and Russians said…
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My Long War – Dexter Filkins – NYTimes.com
I pulled on my running shoes and stepped into the sweltering streets. It was a Thursday in July 2003, twilight, and well over 100 degrees. I was feeling a little reckless. If this ended badly, the only thing anyone would remember was how stupid I was. We had set up the New York Times office…
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Bernard-Henri Lévy: Georgia at War: What I Saw
I see almost no trace of the army which has supposedly regrouped in order to fiercely resist the Russian invasion. Here we see a police station. A little farther on, a handful of soldiers, their uniforms still too new. But no combat units. No anti-aircraft weaponry. Not even the trenches and zigzagging fortifications which, in…
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Georgian Conflict Exposes Obsolete Hardware in Russian Forces
The technical sophistication of the Russian forces turned out to be inferior in comparison with the Georgian military. While Georgia’s armed forces operated Soviet-era T-72 tanks and Su-25 attack planes, both were upgraded with equipment such as night-vision systems to make them technologically superior to similar models operated by the Russian Ground Forces, said Konstantin…