Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: March 2009 Archives

A couple of bits and pieces I picked up today. Literally - a couple:1. Noah Shachtman, editor of the Danger Room at Wired, is (almost) accused of being a 'two-bit blogger' by a spokesman for Donald Rumsfeld:"I think if you're......more

A military officer assigned to NATO says the organisation needs to engage with the new media landscape.In a guest post for Mountain Runner, Tom Brouns argues that NATO's relevance on the Internet will play an increasingly important role in the......more

I came across a blog called Soldiers in the blogosphere recently. It's run by an active duty US Army Major, Jakob Bruhl, and is part of his graduation requirement from the Air Command and Staff College.Maj Bruhl discusses whether soldiers......more

The Ministry of Defence has been rather slow on the uptake in the social media world. Partly because they've just been slow - it happens in large bureaucratic organisations and partly because there are a lot of difficulties working out......more

The US military remains at the forefront of social media and military policy but recently new questions about the value of blogging have been raised.There has been plenty of debate in particular on the US Army Combined Arms Center site......more

The Small Wars Journal has put together a collection of thoughts on the impact of new media on the way the US military has fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well worth bookmarking, reading, and re-reading. I was going to pick......more

In my post about the Israeli Defence Force and their use of social media during the Gaza conflict, I said I was trying to chase up the IDF for a comment or response to it. I, for one, would be......more