Michael Yon

Kevin on January 25th, 2007

Michael has a terrific new dispatch, Desolate Roads Part 1 of 2. John Noonan of Op-For has an email from Michael which says the following, [It’s] getting pretty kinetic here. During my first 5 days we lost 6 KIA Americans and 1 terp, so that was 7, plus quite a few others who were really […]

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Kevin on January 22nd, 2007

Another amazing photo essay series from Michael Yon. Part one, part two and now here’s part three. Enjoy. As always, if you find this type of citizen journalism valuable, and can afford to support his work, please consider doing so here.

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Welcome Instapundit readers. If you want to take a look around, we bring the best of the blogs to Boston’s Talk Station WRKO every Sunday evening from 7-10pm est. You will find the radio archives here, the blog is here and more about us here. Former Green Beret, embedded citizen journalist and our friend Michael […]

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Kevin on January 11th, 2007

Michael Yon has another great photo essay from Iraq. Don’t miss it. This war is fraught with more paradoxes and seeming contradictions than I can track, but one thing I�??ve encountered on every embed is the high number of people who know the most, and suffer the most, still believe we are winning. For the […]

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Kevin on January 8th, 2007

Michael Yon has just posted his first Dispatch from Iraq. It is a wonderful photo essay. He writes about his plans for 2007, Walk The Line 2007 I plan to spend the entirety of 2007 with our troops at war, until sickness, wounds or worse send me home, or the military tires of my presence […]

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Kevin on December 28th, 2006

Michael Yon is back in Iraq. That is good news for everyone looking for a fresh, honest assessment of what is going on. Before entering Iraq, Michael had Christmas in Kuwait, and he made the following observation, This war is strange. I never hear soldiers worried about their own morale sagging. Contrary, the war-fighters here […]

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Shock Magazine has gone out of business after eight issues. A big reason why is that they messed with Michael Yon. They should have asked the US Army public affairs office what it was like to mess with a Yon copyright. Here is the NY Post’s take, The American version became ensnared in controversy almost […]

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