AS THE WAR enters a phase where most of the fighting is far removed from the networks’ cameras, it gets harder and harder to find reliable news on the conflict’s many fronts.

Unless you read the milblogs, that is. “Milblogs” is short for “military blogs”–online journals run by active duty military or reservists who have returned to civilian life for the time being. These first person accounts of the world and the nation through the eyes of front-line troops are changing the nature not just of the blogosphere but of American reporting.