milblogger

plural milbloggers

1. InternetA military service member who writes a blog.

   A number of milbloggers converted their work to published books after returning home.

   2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 81

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   One milblogger who writes anonymously, (as many do), commented in private correspondence with the author: […]

   2006, Carl E. Dauber, “Life in Wartime: Real-Time News, Real-Time Critique, Fighting in the New Media Environment”, in Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat, page 203

   The rise of milbloggers writing from within the war zone itself suggests that in terms of international news reported from outside the West, citizen journalism—just like mainstream news reporting—is likely to be more easily done by Westerners.

   2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 35

2. InternetA blogger, usually one with a close relationship to armed forces, who blogs, often from the front lines, about an ongoing war.

   “These Ukrainian counterattacks are likely leveraging the recent block on Russian forces’ access to Starlink, which Russian milbloggers (military bloggers) have claimed is causing communications and command and control issues on the battlefield,” said the ISW thinktank.

   2026 February 17, “Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv’s forces made fastest battlefield gains since 2023, analysis finds”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Some proxy officials from occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts also operate as milbloggers because they voice their opinions, share analysis from other milbloggers, and disseminate footage from the frontlines independent of the Kremlin and often at odds with the official MoD and Kremlin lines.

   2022 November 20, Kateryna Stepanenko, Frederick W. Kagan, Grace Mappes, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2022