Small Wars Journal : The News Frontier Database by Michael Meyer, Columbia Journalism Review.
"Although it's right to call Small Wars Journal a niche publication, doing so misrepresents the site's true influence. "Small wars," as the site uses it, is a kind of catch-all term for counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, and other pervasive features of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although SWJ may have the narrow readership of a trade or academic journal, its online presence has allowed it to be a major voice on topics paramount to public interest..."
Much more at Columbia Journalism Review.
Comments
<em>This journal is widely read in-theater</em>
Even the comments section? Uh oh.
At any rate, congrats to the site and site editors et al.
Wonderful public educational resource and good illustration of online COI (see, I can do acronyms too. Er, hope I picked the correct one).
To illustrate:
I recognize other South Asian bloggers from Omar link's around here. I mean, from other SA sites that have nothing specifically to do with the topics discussed here. This node: Small Wars. Other node: SA. Intersection: via Omar's comments.