Michael Yon Online: he’s a U.S. veteran who’s been blogging about the war from Iraq, apparently pleasing and irritating people on both

ideological sides of things. If  there’s a discernible ideology here, it’s the U.S. Special Forces notion that you win over cultures and communitites with a lot of engagement, community-building, and (physical) infrastructure construction.

I wouldn’t have learned about Michael Yon’s work if I hadn’t found a piece about it on BlogRunne

r, a site started by The New York Times, and which had a link to this profile of Michael Yon by Richard Perez-Pena.