The Midnight Hour

This may be the greatest photo I have taken in Iraq.

Originally appeared in whole or in part in the New York Times on March 13th, 2006 - link. See opening comments from Part 1.

After our lunchtime excursion to the land of Crystal Light, coffee creamer, and pineapples, my roommate is done for the day. He works midnight to noon, so he peels off […]

Originally appeared in whole or in part in the New York Times on March 13th, 2006 - link.

Be advised, this was an adaptation of one of my first blog entries detailing a day in my life in a timeline format. This version is the original that I sent to […]

Paul McLeary of the Columbia Journalism Review recently posted an article about the Frontlines blog I participated in with the New York Times. His article includes excerpts from an email interview he did with me and one other Frontlines blogger. You can find his article second from the […]

Originally appeared in the New York Times on March 6th, 2006.
More is better, at least when it comes to body armor. That’s the opinion you’ll read in most mainstream media outlets. No doubt you’ll find tales that our body armor is in short supply, and that the meager amount of gear we do […]

After more than a month of writing for the op-ed section of the New York Times website, my publication in Frontlines is coming to a close. Frontlines wishes to keep me on, and given the choice I would stay, but embarking on this journey has uncovered a litany of […]

OK, maybe not senseless. Maybe I wasn’t really beaten at all, but I firmly believe I could have been.
I was going about my daily business Tuesday when I overheard someone jabbering with my driver, Corporal Andrey Marcus, about the large fixed blade knife he always carries attached to his belt. When I say […]

I recently read an article on www.physicsweb.org by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi titled “The Physics of the Web.” The full text of the article can be found here [http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/14/7/9]. While quite old when given the constantly evolving nature of the internet, a feature of Physics World in July 2001, I found the article immensely interesting. […]

My next blog on Frontlines titled “A Lazy Sunday” is up at http://frontlines.blogs.nytimes.com/

Dear Lt. Barnett:
I am an M.A. student in journalism at UW-Madison. I have read your blog and enjoyed it. I enjoy trying to understand the experience of soldiers in Iraq and your blog has helped me to do this.
I am currently researching an article for a journalism class regarding the opinion about the Iraq War […]