War Blogging

Blogging from the front:

For Spc. Buzzell, it was grist for his online war diary, http://cbftw.blogspot.com, whose fans range from soccer moms and truck drivers to punk band leader Jello Biafra. Before the counter dropped off the site, he said he was getting 5,000 hits a day. Iraq war blogs are as varied as the soldiers who write them. Some sites feature practical news, pictures and advice. Some are overtly political, with more slanting to the right than the left. Some question the war, some cheer it. Spc. Buzzell and a handful of others write unvarnished war reporting. A few of these blogs have been shut down, and Spc. Buzzell, an infantryman in an Army Stryker brigade, says he was banned from missions for five days because of the blog and has stopped adding new narrative entries. For the folks back home, soldier blogs offer details of war that don't make it into most news dispatches: The smell of rotten milk lingering in a poor neighborhood. The shepherd boys standing at the foot of a guard tower yelling requests for toothbrushes and sweets. The giant camel spiders. The tedium of long walks to get anything from a shower to a meal. Smoke from a burning oil refinery a hundred miles away blocking the sun. A terrifying night raid surprised by armed enemies dressed in black. On the blogs, soldiers complain, commiserate and celebrate their victories and ingenuity.

Here's a list of numerous blogs with a military slant.