From patrols to hotel bars, Hastings shows the war few outsiders see.
#OperatorsBookReview #Afghanistan #WarJournalism #Books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/operators-book-review/
#warjournalism
The First Casualty
They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine.
Michael Hastings captures the pressure, decisions, and conflicts in Afghanistan.
#OperatorsBookReview #WarJournalism #Afghanistan #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/operators-book-review/
Award-winning journalist Rahul Pandita discusses conflict, fiction and the idea of home at MBIFL 2026, reflecting on war, memory and belonging. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/mbifl-2026/rahul-pandita-explores-home-conflict-mbifl-2026-msgvgkh6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RahulPandita #MBIFL2026 #WarJournalism #FictionWriting
"A journalist should be impartial. But is it even possible in wartime? #warinukraine #russia" [ < 1 min]
by UNITED24media
[It Could Happen Here] Watching War Behind a Screen #itCouldHappenHere
https://podcastaddict.com/it-could-happen-here/episode/164948624
I've struggled to find people in media who have been in war and can also contextualize it better than Robert Evans. He reminds me of an old friend of mine who was also a war journalist but passed away a long time ago. He's also super into roll playing games and burningman events (although he rarely talks about them)
#TuesdayColumn: As Tsar #Putin declares himself a poor neighbour and invades #Ukraine (again), it is important to remember that it is very difficult to know what to believe and to treat everything as #propaganda until the dust settles. #UkraineWar #politics #WarJournalism #writing
No Fertile Soil For Truth:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/no-fertile-soil-for-truth/
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