Posts with keyword: iraq

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Michael Yon On Iraq

Mon Jul 9 09:59:00 2007

A friend emailed me a link to Michael Yon's Online Magazine, a singularly unimaginative name that belies the real reporting that's contained in his dispatches and photos from the front lines in Iraq. He sees things many journalists seem to miss because he sticks around after things have gone boom and the TV crews have packed up and moved on to the next flash point.
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Reconstructing Iraq's Power Grid

Tue Dec 12 11:43:00 2006

I just finished listening to the second installment of the new IEEE Spectrum Radio program on IT Conversations. This piece, Reconstructing Iraq's Power Grid is excellent and very interesting. It's not political--but the size and importance of the job is eye opening. These shows are not as easy as just republishing what IEEE sends us. This show, for example, was pieced together from three separate segments and Paul Figgiani did a great job of rearranging lead-ins, music and so on to make it seem like a connected show. If you're wondering if every show in this series is somehow
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It's Not the Fight We Wanted, But It's the Fight We Got

Tue Mar 21 09:30:00 2006

If you've never been in the military, you may not appreciate the level of professionalism and training represented in both the officer and enlisted ranks. Julian Barnes has a great piece in US News and World Report on how the Army is shifting it's training in response to things they're encountering in Iraq. This is important because we're more likely to see things that look like Iraq in the future than we are "near-peer" kinds of encounters.
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