Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
From a Sunday, May 11, 2008 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin
David Frum's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Jules Crittenden on Michael Vinay Bhatia, here.Michael Vinay Bhatia, 31, of Medway, Massachusetts, magna cum laude Brown University, Oxford University... . . .
Informed Comment Global Affairs (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Michael Vinay Bhatia, a researcher well known to many of those working on Afghanistan, died in an IED attack on his vehicle in Khost Province, Afghanistan, on May 7, 2008. Michael was working as a civilian employee of the U.S. Department of Defense as a member of the Human Terrain System of the Army. I last saw Michael when he came to visit me before his departure and I mourn his passing. Some of Michael's...
Sepia Mutiny (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Last week the nation lost Michael Vinay Bhatia to the war in Afghanistan (an IED of course). To say he was a unique breed of "soldier" would be an understatement: Michael Vinay Bhatia, 31, was serving as a social scientist embedded with troops in the U.S. Army's Human Terrain Systems program . HTS program manager Steve Fondacaro said, "He was an example of...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Barnett Rubin reports that Michael Vinay Bhatia, a researcher well known to many of those working on Afghanistan, died in an IED attack on his vehicle in Khost Province, Afghanistan, on May 7, 2008.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A Brown University graduate and former visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies has died while working in Afghanistan, according to a spokeswoman at the Watson Institute. Michael Vinay Bhatia, who graduated in 1999, was working as...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
MEDWAY, Mass.—A social scientist from Massachusetts has been killed in Afghanistan, where he was a civilian consultant to the Army on cultural issues.more stories like thisThe Army's Training and Doctrine Command said on Friday that Michael Vinay Bhatia, 31, was killed Wednesday by an improvised explosive in Afghanistan's Khowst province. Two soldiers also died.Bhatia was...
forward movement (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... and the company he died in. Local boy goes out into the world, makes good, makes a sacrifice. Michael Vinay Bhatia, 31, of Medway, Massachusetts, magna cum laude Brown University, Oxford University doctoral candidate, didn't have to be in Afghanistan, but he wanted to make a difference, and he did. You'll find a Small Wars Journal tribute/roundup and the Boston Herald's article...
