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Independent War Correspondent

Michael Yon

2 articles 2005–2006

Michael Yon is an independent war correspondent and blogger known for his embedded reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan. His dispatches from the front lines gained a wide following for their vivid, firsthand accounts of combat operations. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard in 2005–2006 covering the situation on the ground in Baghdad and media coverage of the Iraq War.

Censoring Iraq

October 30, 2006 · Features, Magazine, Michael Yon

In a counterinsurgency, the media battlespace is critical. When it comes to mustering public opinion, rallying support, and forcing opponents to shift tactics and timetables to better suit the home team, our terrorist enemies are destroying us. Al Qaeda's media arm is called al Sahab: the cloud. It…