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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Sep 30, 2008
At the U.S. military's Camp Duke, near the Shiite holy city of Najaf, in 2005, photographer Rick Egan and I were treated to a tour of a local ammunition dump. The idea was to show us what a great job the U.S. Army was …
Also tagged: lessons
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Sep 19, 2008
Fellow Tribune reporter María Villaseñor and I stood at the door and took a deep breath. "I always said I'd hate to be a door-to-door salesman," she chuckled uncomfortably, "because I didn't even want to have to knock …
Also tagged: journalism, lessons, the fallen
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Sep 4, 2008
Nearly three years ago, I wrote from Iraq's deadly Anbar Province that "any meaningful, sustainable transfer of power is years away." This week, the U.S. handed over controlof the province to Iraqi autorities. Count me …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jul 28, 2008
When I first visited Iraq in 2005, service members from Utah often told me that they worried that the media made too big a deal out of the violence there. "It's actually safer to be in Iraq than it is to drive down …
Also tagged: the fallen
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jul 25, 2008
Jed was clearly stoked. Already, he'd purchased his plane tickets and body armor. Now he was in the market for some advice. He called me on a Wednesday afternoon, about a week before his planned departure to Kuwait …
Also tagged: journalism
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jul 15, 2008
Last year, The Salt Lake Tribune began reporting on an Army officer who, having been forced out of the Utah National Guard after being accused of fraud, found his way into a California Army Reserve unit, where he …
Also tagged: recruiting
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jul 7, 2008
Maybe we should forgive Sen. Bob Bennett for overstating matters when he told The Salt Lake Tribune "there is no question al-Qaida has been defeated in Iraq" on the very same day an apparent AQI martyr killed 20 …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jul 1, 2008
A new report by the Ft. Leavenworth-based Combat Studies Institute -- a command of official Army historians and deep-thinkers -- is confirming the long-held opinion of post-invasion critics that war planners had too …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jun 27, 2008
Apparently suffering from the same delusions that gave us such historic blunders of bravado as "Mission Accomplished," "Bring it On" and "Last Throes," Sen. Bob Bennett told The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday that …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jun 20, 2008
Missouri Democrat Rep. Ike Skelton is calling on President Bush to make Afghanistan his top priority. As casualties in Afghanistan continue to exceed those in Iraq, I'm thinking this comes a bit late, but for what it's …
Also tagged: afghanistan