by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Journalist Kevin Sites joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “Swimming with Warlords,” which finds him returning to Afghanistan 10 years after his first visit in 2001. ...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Author and Producer Kevin Sites and his new book Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen Year Journey Across the Afghan War Award-winning backpack journalist and author Kevin Sites traded a high profile career as a network news producer and correspondent (ABC, NBC, CNN) to...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Journalist Kevin Sites reported from Afghanistan when the United States invaded in 2001, and he has been back a handful of times. With U.S. and NATO troops scheduled to withdraw next year, Sites calls the American legacy “a paradox.” While many Afghans...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
There are some stories soldiers don’t share when they return home, because of shame or anger, because they are afraid of what others may think of them, or sometimes just because no one asks. Writer Kevin Sites has collected such stories in his new book...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War By Kevin Sites (Harper Perennial; 295 pages; $15.99 paperback) When soldiers discuss their experiences at war, they often talk of a breaking point – the first time...
by admin | Jan 5, 2015 | Media
On the streets of Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, veteran journalist Kevin Sites interviewed William Wold (Video link, starts at 23:00), a young Marine emotionally charged from combat, who had killed six insurgents just moments before relating his experiences. Sites’...
by admin | Jan 7, 2015 | Video Bylines, War Reporting
GRAPHIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES VISIBLE When a thirteen-year-old Afghan boy named Habibullah caught his arms in a flour mill they were nearly shredded from his body. The only hope to save both his life and limbs were four American military doctors at remote combat...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Dart Center.org, October 5, 2014 For the past two years, Kevin Sites, a 2012 Ochberg Fellow, has been teaching at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre. There, in large part to avoid being labeled problem-makers, his...
by admin | Jan 23, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice.com, October 24, 2014 Kevin Sites is a war correspondent who VICE and several other major media companies like CNN, ABC, and NBC have sent into some of the most unstable and dangerous places in the world. He’s that rare breed...
by admin | Jan 25, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Salon.com, January 28, 2013 An Army specialist recounts the horrible story of realizing he’s just fired on — and killed — fellow Americans Excerpted from “The Things They Cannot Say” Southwest of Baghdad in the...
by admin | Jan 26, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, October 14, 2014 Warlord Nabi Gechi takes the author and his companions for a swim in the muddy Kunduz River. Under the cover of a moonless night in mid-October 2001, I found myself loading thousands of pounds of camera equipment...
by admin | Jan 26, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, November 6, 2014 “Do you see how I shoot him? You brother of a bitch. This is not fair. I don’t have a sniper rifle. It’s not fair.” Captain Abdul Khadir hurled epithets and 7.62 rounds at a group of...
by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | Bylines
Originally published in Alert Diver magazine, August 2015. Police divers descend to new depths for justice. Sgt. David Mascarenas was stewing in his own sweat inside a Whites hazmat drysuit. It was a sunny day in Southern California in June 2013, but it wasn’t...
by admin | Mar 21, 2018 | Bylines
Originally published in Small Wars Journal, February 2018 Kevin Sites In war, there is always time for champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it. — Napoleon Bonaparte From wine swilling Greek hoplites to tweaked out NAZI’s on speed, drugs and...
by admin | Oct 21, 2018 | Bylines
Originally published in USA Today, February 24, 2014 Blaming suspect’s actions in sniper’s death on disorder unfairly stigmatizes others. Eddie Ray Routh, an Iraq War veteran who has been charged in the killings of former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and...
by admin | Jan 20, 2019 | Bylines
Originally published in Vice Magazine, January 28, 2013 All photos by Nina Berman except archival image William Wold. As Yahoo! News’s first war correspondent, between 2005 and 2006 Kevin Sites gained notoriety for covering every major conflict across the globe in one...
by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | Bylines
Originally published in Aeon Magazine, April 9, 2014 The unforgiven When soldiers kill in war, the secret shame and guilt they bring back home can destroy them November 2004, against a shattered wall in south Fallujah in Iraq, with video rolling, I conduct a...