Internationally renowned for his battlefield dispatches and photographs seen by tens of millions of readers around the world, Michael Yon is hands down the best, most exciting, most experienced battlefield reporter working today. He has often gone head to head with the top brass and was actually shut out of Iraq for months when the U.S. military decided it did not like what he was writing. But the fighting officers and soldiers Yon covers know this former Green Beret stands with them. Our soldiers lead him to the hottest spots and most crucial campaigns when other less trusted journalists are left behind. Yon's career has been extraordinary. When Yon first embedded with the US Army in Baquba, Iraq in December 2004 he was virtually unknown, his dispatches appearing exclusively on his website Michael Yon's Online magazine. Within months Yon's combination of fierce independence, willingness to go into the heart of battle, his "vivid ??? shocking and mesmerizing" reportage and his hair-raising battlefield photos had made him famous not only on the web but around the world. Ever since then the mainstream media have been following Michael Yon's lead as he finds the stories that matter.Yon's dispatches have been featured on major news websites, including, Time Online, MSNBC, ABC News, CNN, and CBS and now appear regularly on Fox News.comYon himself has appeared live on CBS Early Morning, ABC Good Morning America, CNN's The Week at War, and Fox News, as well as such Top Talk Radio as Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, Hugh Hewitt and more than 100 additional shows. Yon's photographs have been seen around the world and have appeared on the front pages of more than 50 major US daily newspapers, including the Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Post, and the Washington Times. Yon's reputation for independence and objectivity gave him supreme credibility when he was the first battlefield reporter in Iraq to warn that the country was spiraling into civil war in 2005.That same reputation will stand him in good stead as he reports on the "Moment of Truth In Iraq" in March 2008
