Site Guide

War in Context started as a news aggregation site and has become a blog. Text from other sources appears in block quotes (light gray background, slightly indented). The rest of the material is written by the editor/author of this site, Paul Woodward.

Where the by-line says “News Sources,” the specific source being cited is identified in a link at the beginning of the extract (e.g. The New York Times reports).

Where the by-line says “Attention to the Unseen,” this signals an item on a topic outside the area of the political issues on which this site generally focuses.

Readers are welcome to add their own comments. Comments are held for moderation unless the comment author has a previously approved comment. All comments containing links are held for moderation.

There are several ways of digging into the material here:

1. Using Site Search in the right sidebar.
This is for specific queries. For instance, if you’re looking for posts making reference to drone attacks in Pakistan, a suitable querie would be drone pakistan. If you used the exact phrase “drone attacks in Pakistan” (words within quotation marks are treated as a phrase) then the search results will only include occurrences of that exact phrase. For the best results choose unambiguous terms or phrases. Queries are not case sensitive.

2. Using Categories in the left sidebar and under each post.
Every post is “tagged” with one or more categories. Clicking a category link will return a list of all the posts in that category.