This is the 4th post in a series about some ways in which our Long War are changing us. How will the Long War affect America? Will it make us stronger or weaker? Crazy? Unleash our dark side? Why we fight. Causes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Killing prisoners, our new tactic in the …
Summary: It has been five months since the fighting in Basra, which I described as a test of the accuracy of US-based experts vs. on-the-scene war bloggers. Who did a better job of reporting and analysis? My preliminary scoring suggested a clear win for the war-bloggers (see here and here). Here we give a final …
One consistent oddity of the Iraq War is that we read two streams of reports about it, so different that they might be of different wars. Here are two such. One from a mainstream media source. One from Michael Totten, one of the best-known war-bloggers. Both are balanced, Totten’s especially so, but they give us alternative …
Two views of Fallujah – which tells us more about the future? Read More »
Here is a comment from Bill Roggio about these posts about war bloggers, posted with his permission. The series you have run here is valuable. I am very interested in seeing how this plays out. I certainly appreciate both the tone and nature of your postings, and your willingness to have a civil and productive …
Bill Roggio comments on this series about “war bloggers” Read More »
Michael Totten kindly responded to my post A look at the writings of “war blogger” Michael J. Totten. I have reformatted our email exchange into an interview format, posted with his permission. MJT: I heartily agree that my older work is a lot more simplistic than what I write now. I didn’t jump from blogger to …
