Bill Roggio, Editor of the Long War Journal, generously replied to my posts about his recent reports concerning events in Basra. See his bio here. Comment #1 I certainly appreciate the attention you’ve given me for the Basrah reporting. I do think you are drawing the wrong conclusions to my reports. I am surprised you …
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(#9 in a series) Current events in Basra provide a test case to compare the accuracy of the war bloggers vs. that of conventional experts. This post shows of a prominent war blogger, Bill Roggio (Editor of the Long War Journal (LWJ); see his bio here). The following post looks at the views of several experts. Update:  …
(#8 in a series) One frequent response to my series on War Bloggers is that are a minor phenomenon, especially compared to the mainstream media. First that ignores the increasing prominence of the war bloggers. Second, this ignores their increasing role in the mainstream media – NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and now this — …
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We have the usual stream of confident but contradictory reports about the current wave of fighting in Iraq. It is the confidence I find most interesting. My guess is that the confidence is more deserved in the second of the two articles shown below. The precise detail given in the first seems somewhat excessive. Note the first reporter uses body …
News you can trust about the fighting in Basra! Read More »
This post links to reports on events in Basra by bloggers, in addition to those I posted yesterday. In the first post today, I – IV are links to what seem to me expert opinions. This post, #V gives examples of what looks to me like simplistic speculation. The last post, VI and VII, links to valuable background …
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