David Axe

Current

• Freelance writer at Freelance writer

Past

• Military Editor, Defense Technology Int'l at McGraw-Hill
• Staff writer at Free Times

Education

• University of South Carolina-Columbia
• Furman University

Recommended

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Connections

133 connections

Industry

Media Production

Websites

• My Blog
• My Flickr

David Axe’s Summary

As a freelance and staff writer for many publications I have covered local, national and international politics, crime, the arts and war. I have reported from Iraq on eight separate occasions, as well as from Lebanon, Japan, East Timor, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and the U.K. My work has appeared in The Washington Times, The Village Voice, Popular Science, Wired News, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, Archeology, Combat Aircraft, World Politics Review, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings and many others. I have also shot video in Iraq and Afghanistan for C-SPAN and PBS.

I have written two books: ARMY 101, a nonfiction account of ROTC in wartime, published in 2007 by USC Press; and WAR FIX, first in a graphic novel trilogy recounting my work in Iraq (NBM, 2006).

My blog War Is Boring gets around a thousand unique visitors per day.

David Axe’s Specialties:

Foreign and war correspondence

David Axe’s Experience

• Freelance writer

  Freelance writer

  (Newspapers industry)

  January 2000 — Present (10 years )

  Focusing on war, technology and media criticism.

• Military Editor, Defense Technology Int'l

  McGraw-Hill

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MHP; Publishing industry)

  October 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Covered the defense trade and current military operations. Focus on counter-insurgency tactics, robotics and automotive technology.

• Staff writer

  Free Times

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Covered county politics, crime and the arts.

David Axe’s Education

• University of South Carolina-Columbia

  MFA , English lit , 2001 — 2004

• Furman University

  1996 — 2000

Additional Information

David Axe’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Flickr

David Axe’s Groups:

Authors Guild
American Society of Journalists and Authors
U.S. Naval Institute

•    Defense Update

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