Good News sources

[AmericanPride]

I'm looking for any good daily, free, on-line news sources relating to defense, foreign affairs, and intelligence. Thanks.

[selil]

Oh dang. Have you heard of RSS?

Well to start

CNN.com (International)

GovExec

DHS Open Source Infrastructure Report
igoogle (for news)
Google News Alerts to your email for what you want
Small Wars Journal Blog (Daily roundup)
RAND

On SWJ check out the blog roll and find sites you like and get their RSS feeds. Unfortunately many only provide summaries (I usually dump those) others provide full story feeds (I read them).

There are a variety of think tanks and other places. If you don't have a PC at hand use Google Reader to aggregate any and all feeds and even sites that are not RSS enabled. All you need is a browser and you can share, link, and notate different feeds using google reader.

Don't make the mistake many do with regards to BLOGS. Many people are quite closely tied in so once something becomes open source or exists as open source they can talk about it. Some BLOGS are primarily discussing the daily news and little original content. You can pick up trends from them. Other BLOGS are about complete original content (like mine) where I and contributors rarely discuss other peoples work other than daily news posts that have no commentary.

Check out the Australian News, and BBC News. Australian is better and the sites have different feels as far as military matters are concerned. One great overseas site that seems to have been abandoned is Swedish Meatballs. Always good to read but no new posts in months.

[Schmedlap]

CFR does a daily opinion roundup: http://www.cfr.org/publication/by_type/dor.html

I regularly read Uskowi on Iran - very good source of news on Iran from a guy who is an analyst: http://uskowioniran.blogspot.com/

Good one for Pakistan: http://pakistaniat.com/

I stumbled upon this a few months ago and bookmarked it: http://passing-interest.blogspot.com/
I'm not sure what it is, but check out all of the links in the right column.

Regarding military news - specifically Iraq/Afghanistan - The Long War Journal does a good job. It's just not updated often enough or comprehensive in scope on a daily basis. But it is the only news site where it is assumed that readers have a fundamental understanding of the military and the current conflict. Occasionally it gets into the nuts and bolts of specific issues to a degree that you will not read elsewhere. The comments are often very informative as well. Roggio understands the deal with "rogue JAM" and why we use the terminology - little things like that make it head and shoulders above other news sources.

I've got nothing for the intel news. Perhaps Intel Dump?

[bourbon]

I will say, fully aware of what forum I am on, that antiwar.com is an excellent site. It comes from the "Old Right" and Libertarian perspective more then dyed in the wool liberalism.

Shane Harris is a Intelligence and Homeland Security Correspondent for National Journal, I recommend his stuff. The national security crowd at McClatchy news just started a blog Nukes & Spooks, pretty good. The Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Monitor, Terrorism Focus, and Eurasia Daily Monitor is required reading. FAS's Secrecy News is excellent, as is Cryptome, both cover the intel world. Power and Interest News Report is a pretty good site covering world affairs.

EurasiaNet has solid news coverage, Paul Goble has a blogWindow On Eurasia that is excellent in this area also. BookForum took over the Political Theory Daily Review, still pretty good. Friday Lunch Club is good blog covering the Middle East, as is Augustus Norton's less frequently updated blog.

I admire and appreciate Laura Rozen's reporting on national security issues and her blog War & Piece. Steve Clemons The Washington Note is very good as well.

This guy has some interesting stuff from time to time: http://feraljundi.com/

[AmericanPride]

Thanks for the links. Keep them coming.

[Jedburgh]

You can obtain an incredible amount of information regarding what sources board members find useful simply by reading through the forums and seeing where the various links lead. There are also specific threads on the board that discuss blogs and think tanks, as well as tools for monitoring updates to those websites.

Having said that, I will go ahead and second Bourbon's recommendation for the Jamestown Foundation. It is probably the best free website that publishes focused reporting and analysis on a regular (daily and weekly) basis. There are plenty of others that are very good, but they tend to post new articles/papers/reports on an irregular basis.

I'm also surprised that no one has mentioned the International Relations and Security Network.

[CloseDanger]

I would be remiss were I not to mention Rantburg.com

[BayonetBrant]

there are a bunch of RSS feeds on the left side of the page at www.grognews.com - including Yahoo's military news feed, Armchair Generalist, Danger Room, DefenseTech, and DoDBuzz, plus SWJ of course!

Personal faves? I love me some Danger Room, and I also like Mountain Runner and DefenseTech

There are also links to about 25 or so news sources and another dozen or so military gaming resources.