Frustration with CENTCOM's and the military's ability and willingness to get its message out abounded late last year.

Although I'll allow that many things get past me, I have noticed bare improvements at best out of CENTCOM since then.

One blogger in Ohio has now done something about it.

Fortunately, heroic (that IS the right word) onsite milbloggers and others on the ground in Iraq have picked up much of the slack in the meantime. I would attempt to enumerate them here, but I'm sure I'll miss many who don't deserve to be overlooked. Collectively, I believe that they have conferred a degree of balance in the war-related news in two ways.