On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher » Carlos Boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:34:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher no Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog On the Line: Embedded journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan with Mike and Carlos Boettcher » Carlos Boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/category/carlos-boettcher/ Helmand http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/25/helmand/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/25/helmand/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:43:36 +0000 carlos boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=465 I sit in a broken green lawnchair, writing. It is hot here: the sunlight is overwhelming, and even in shade the temperature is easily in triple di....

]]> http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/25/helmand/feed/ 2 A New Focus: The Southern Front http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/22/a-new-focus-the-southern-front/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/06/22/a-new-focus-the-southern-front/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:47:38 +0000 carlos boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=456 People often call the conflict in Afghanistan “The Forgotten War,” a broad statement that misses the point on why the going has be....

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The village of Kamu is only a brief walk from COP Lowell, and every month a MEDCAP mission is dispatched to provide medical assistance for locals....

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]]> http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/24/engineering-at-the-edge-of-the-earth/feed/ 3 Pointy End of the Spear http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/24/pointy-end-of-the-spear/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/24/pointy-end-of-the-spear/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 06:02:35 +0000 carlos boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=395 It is an unfortunate fact that sometimes stories are lost in the maelstrom of information that seems constant and, at times, overwhelming. Eve....

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]]> http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/18/hammer-of-god/feed/ 2 Base of Babel http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/12/base-of-babel/ http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/2009/05/12/base-of-babel/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 15:32:31 +0000 carlos boettcher http://blog.newsok.com/afghanistan-iraq/?p=339 I sit in the dining hall of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) headquarters and let the cacophany that fills the room wash over me, ....

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