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The Ukrainian Army is advancing in attacks near the eastern city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian commanders said on Friday, in fighting that has shifted the front line only slightly but is exposing fissures, confusion and alarm among Russia’s forces in the war. Russia’s pro-war bloggers were quick to claim that Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive had begun, but Ukrainian officials downplayed the advances and described them in more local terms. Ukrainian soldiers broke through Russian lines south of Bakhmut on Wednesday, they said, and then exploited that breach, assaulting Russian forces near the city and threatening Russian flanks to the north and south....

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, many milblogs — including This Ain’t Hell, From My Position, Blackfive, Miss Ladybug, Boston Maggie, Grim’s Hall, and those participating in the Wednesday Hero program — are going silent for the day. Some are choosing to go silent for a longer period of time.

According to TSO who was at the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, this newly sworn-in President for the first time in 56 years blew off the ball (that’s 14 Inaugurations). TSO is one of the Mil-bloggers at "This Ain't Hell". A tradition for over a half century until "The Loser" with his nose in the air snubbed the Medal of Honor winners.

There's an amazing program about soldiers blogging from Iraq on the History Channel right now. I've never started a thread, so I'm sorry if I am breaking any protocol. This show is just too good not to let other people know about it.

The FReeper Canteen Looks at MILBLOGGINGI have recently become interested in reading milbloggers on the internet.  I was challenged by Cannoneer No. 4 (thank you!) to read these and in addition, to comment on them.  From Cannoneer No. 4's blog... What Can YOU Do? Filed under: milblogger, IO — cannoneerno4 @ 12:20 pm   People who want to “support the troops” ask that question a lot.  What do you WANT to do? Why are you waiting to be told what to do? Why don’t you find something useful to do, and just do it?What IS useful? Pretty much anything that...

In the past, the experiences of war have produced poetry and novels and memoirs. The War on Terror is different: we're seeing through a new set of eyes, a new kind of literature. In real time, on the Internet, officers and enlisted men and women are chronicling the war on weblogs. As the number of blogs continue to rise dramatically, blogging’s advent – the effect of which has been likened to that of the printing press on the Reformation - is giving the world the opportunity to experience the world’s latest war – the War on Terror – first hand....