You were listening to the War on the Rocks podcast where we talk about strategy, defense, and foreign affairs, often with a drink in hand.

This time it was actually an entire bottle of bourbon.

My name's Ryan Evans, I'm the editor-in-chief of Warren the Rocks.

In this episode I was joined by Paul Shinkman of US News and World Report, Nancy Yussif of the Daily Beast, and David Wood of the Huffington Post.

We spoke about covering the US military and America's wars and how it's changed overtime.

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Thank you all for joining me. We're sitting here at our War on the Rocks offices with a bottle of bourbon, Buffalo Trayson. We're here to talk about how

covering the military, the wars, the defense department has changed over time.

David, why don't we start with you since you are the most senior among us?

Yes, I am.

So I'm David Wood, I'm a staff correspondent for the Huffington Post, started covering wars in 1977, and through, I guess, 1994 or five, I covered Wars as a unilateral reporter out on the battlefield by myself, which was

exhilarating and interesting and at times scary.

After the Bosnia war, which was the last war that I covered by myself,

it got really dangerous, I felt.

And so since then I've only covered wars as an embedded reporter so

traveling living with US military units mostly army and marine ground force

units just because they're easier to hang around with.

Let's see I've worked for Time magazine New House News Service Baltimore Sun a lot of places that have either gone out of business or let their defense reporters go.

Pulitzer in 2014 for a series that I did on the severely wounded of the wars and I've been on leave

for a year writing a book about combat moral injury. What's it going to be called?

What have we done the moral injuries of our longest wars?

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