War Is Boring

The latest pissed-off reader takes exception to my coverage of the Blue Devil 2 “missile blimp” — and also finds my “pen name” to be “cute.” He also helpfully sent me a link to a marketing brochure detailing Blue Devil’s weapons capability, failing to notice that I’m the one who uploaded that document in the first place.

Somebody update this thing for me, please, as I’m not allowed (for good reasons) to do so myself.

Yesterday at Offiziere.ch I published a quick round-up of news related to last month’s Mali coup. While addressing rumors that the Peace Corps was withdrawing its volunteers from the country, I linked to a blog apparently written by P.C. volunteer Danielle Larson, who on Tuesday stated that the withdrawal rumor was “false.”

Launched by Noah Shachtman and Sharon Weinberger in 2007, Danger Room has quickly become a standard-setting publication covering the intersection of war, technology and politics.

I’ll be on NPR’s All Things Considered on Tuesday, talking about the military’s doomed efforts to build a universal radio.

by MOLLY BRENAN No art or barbarians today. Instead, this the closest thing this blog has ever had to a holiday special. I’m very grateful that you guys abide my hanging out here. I would get you all fighter jets if I could, because that’s what everyone really wants, right?. Would it were that I [...]

by DAVID AXE I got the most delightful comment the other day, from a man apparently named Mike Nash, with the email address trektar@yahoo.com and the IP address 69.247.16.191, which would seem to place him near Kodak, Tennessee: I see by your War Is Boring picture [masthead --ed.] above that you are implying that blacks [...]

by DAVID AXE Project, a new publication for the iPad, has published a lengthy interview with me:

Defence IQ has named War Is Boring one the top 10 defense blogs of 2011, alongside such stalwarts as Danger Room, Ares and Small Wars Journal. Here’s what they had to say about us.

Deborah Bonello, a video journalist for Financial Times, in her spare time runs TheVideoReporter.com, a Website for, well, video reporters and other freelancers of the digital age. She just published this piece on War Is Boring and our business model, featuring me.

On Saturday morning in D.C., I’ll be sitting on a panel at the American Independent Writers association, talking about war journalism. I’ll be joined by former Danger Room scribe Nathan Hodge. If you’re in D.C., please consider attending. Afternoon drinks and football-watching to follow the panel.

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