Recently in Iraq Category

Fighting the Taliban in Marjah, Afghanistan.There was an interesting little sub-plot in this article in The Times about the aim of protecting and winning over the population in a counterinsurgency operation. On the one hand these US Marines were being......more

Continuing what is rapidly turning into an autumnal video season here on the blog, I came across this interview by David Meerman Scott with Roxie Merritt, the Director of New Media Operations at the U.S. Department of Defense.    There's......more

Last week, Defence of the Realm blogger Richard North dropped by struggled down from Bradford to London to discuss his book on Britain's deployment in Iraq. Focussing on one of his specialities - procurement and provision of equipment for British......more

Using Google Earth (or Maps) as a news tool isn't exactly new. But mapping all the coalition casualties during the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is a monumental effort.It's the work of Sean Askay, a Google employee. He used......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

Independent journalist Michael Totten is going back to Baghdad. He's managed to organise an embed with the US military and will no doubt be blogging his trip here. "So stay tuned for an in-depth tour through Baghdad after the surge.......more

How about this for an army recruitment website? Relaunched today, goarmy.com, includes all sorts of video from soldiers deployed in Iraq. (Interestingly there are also strong video elements on the British Army recruitment website.) In an introductory montage, the......more

After the closure of Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal, what's been filling my milblogging void? Well here are some of the ones from Iraq that I've been reading recently. Fobbits Need Ice Cream Too. A National Guard Infantry soldier describes......more

This is the sort of post that comes with a significant disclaimer - I can't entirely verify the authenticity of the blog. But I thought I'd point you in the direction of a blog whose author claims to be one......more

"There's no such thing as a winnable war; It's a lie that we don't believe anymore" Music is not my specialist subject but these lyrics have been popping into my head over the past couple of days. Sting, of course,......more