by editor | May 29, 2007 | Analysis, Media, Military, Popular Culture
by Angela Trethewey Then In Surging on the Cyberspace Battlefield (COMOPS, May 8th) Christina Smith praised the military’s openness to both positive and negative responses to videos posted on the military’s YouTube channel, Multi-National Force Iraq (MNFIRAQ). She...
by editor | May 22, 2007 | Analysis, Complexity, Diplomacy, Media
by Bud Goodall In recent Congressional hearings on U.S. attempts to win popular support in the Arab world, the continuing controversy surrounding al Hurra dominated the discussion. al Hurra, a television network financed to broadcast pro-U.S. messages throughout the...
by editor | May 15, 2007 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Polarization
by Ian Derk In the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheik, several Middle Eastern nations and the US met to discuss Iraq. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice went to the resort town to debate the future of Iraq, particularly the flow of foreign fighters and debt relief....
by editor | May 8, 2007 | Analysis, Media, Military, Popular Culture
by Christina M. Smith Social networking sites such as YouTube permit user-created content to be posted on the internet for audiences to view via streaming video. With the recent purchase of YouTube by Google, its capability and reach has dramatically increased. One of...
by editor | May 1, 2007 | Analysis, Identification, Media
by Steven R. Corman and Jarret Brachman On April 20, news surfaced from Peshawar, Pakistan of a gruesome Taliban execution video in which a young boy beheads a fellow Taliban supporter. The victim, identified as Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant, “confesses†on...
