FPS - First Person Shooter - For Real

"In real, modern combat, in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers have cameras attached to their helmets."

from Gizmodo

see This is Real War, Viewed from the Call of Duty Camera Angle

Link to the video in The New York Times featured in the Gizmodo article


Combat in the First Person: Haruti

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Tim Hetherington: A Photo Tribute.

Image by Getty Images via @daylifefrom Vanity Fair

see Tim Hetherington: A Vanity Fair Portfolio

A soldier resting at Restrepo bunker in Afghanistan, named the World Press Photo of the Year for 2007.

One To Watch: Armadillo - The Danes in Helmand Province, Afghanistan

"Janus Metz’s “Armadillo,” which follows a group of Danish soldiers through a tour of duty in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, has a lot in common with “Restrepo.” Each film is named for a Forward Operating Base, and each one focuses on the daily grind of the men who fight there."

"Mr. Metz’s cameras somehow capture — you shudder to think of how — an intense firefight and its bloody aftermath, an event that turns “Armadillo” into a queasy ethical puzzle. What happens is shocking, and yet it also seems, especially to the soldiers, completely logical and acceptable. "

from The New York Times Film Review by A O Scott

see Fortunes and Misfortunes of War, From a Danish Perspective

New Movies: Source Code - One to Watch

"While he knows himself to be Capt. Colter Stevens, an Army helicopter pilot who has recently been running sorties in Afghanistan, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan), the woman with the pretty smile opposite him, knows (and sees) him as Sean (Frédérick De Grandpré). Leaping up, Stevens insists that he isn’t who she believes him to be, even if the man looking back at him in a bathroom mirror (Mr. De Grandpré) suggests otherwise. Before Stevens has time to ask whozat, he and everyone else are blown up."


from The New York Times


see  Don’t Know Who You Are, but Don’t Know Who I Am 

To Kill a Haji - Afghan War Murders

"How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon"

From Rolling Stone

see The Kill Team