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July/August 2008

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Abstract –

“If you are going on a combat mission and soldiers have not cleaned all their windows to a sparkle, do not go with them. Soldiers with dirty windows are not watching for tiny wires in the road, nor are they scanning rooftops.” These are the memorable words of Michael Yon, a former Green Beret-turned-businessman-turned-journalist who has redefined what it means to be a war correspondent through the innovative work he has done reporting on the Iraq conflict, and the innovative way he has presented that work to a public hungry for a new kind of reportage.


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Jonathan Foreman, who was an embedded reporter in Iraq in 2003 and 2005, is deputy editor of Standpoint, a new magazine in Britain.

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