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Mark Urban

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As seen in: Sunday Times, The Sunday Times, MSN Singapore, The New York Times, UOL Notícias, BBC, Bloomberg CityLab, Daily Mail, Financial Times, MSN Malaysia, Nature, Terra and
Covers:  defence, intelligence, security, counter terrorism, geopolitics, peace and conflict, diplomacy
Columnist for Sunday Times, BBC 1990-2024, author; Big Boys Rules, Rifles, Generals, TF Black, Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank. Trustee @I_W_M 2018-26

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Mark Urban’s Biography

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Founding Defence Correspondent of The Independent (1986-1990), Reporter for BBC Newsnight (1990-1993), Middle East Correspondent of BBC News (1993-1994) and Diplomatic Editor of Newsnight (1995-).

Author of non-fiction books: Soviet Land Power; War in Afghanistan; Big Boys' Rules - The SAS and the Secret STruggle Against the IRA; The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes; Rifles - Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters; Generals; Fusiliers - How the British Army Lost America but Learned …

Mark Urban’s Journalist Portfolio

'The most dangerous place in Iraq', Mark Urban returns - Newsnight

'The most dangerous place in Iraq', Mark Urban returns - Newsnight

Mark Urban returns to Dora, once dubbed the most dangerous place in Iraq. Follow @BBCNewsnight on Twitter htt…

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Victory Day in Russia: Mark Urban reports - Newsnight

Victory Day in Russia: Mark Urban reports - Newsnight

Follow @BBCNewsnight on Twitter https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight Like BBC Newsnight on Facebook https://www.f…

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Tankies: Tank Heroes of World War II, Episode 1 of 2

Tankies: Tank Heroes of World War II, Episode 1 of 2

The Second World War was the ultimate conflict of the machine age, and the tank was its iconic symbol. The "t…

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Nato's questions of political will

Nato's questions of political will

Nato has rarely escaped the existential question in the years since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now…

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Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq

Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq

Buy Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban (ISBN: 978…

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Articles

Economic Warfare Is Back

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Omsk oil refinery burning after a Ukrainian attack The latest US strikes on Iranian infrastructure targets and threats to reimpose their naval blockade on the Islamic Republic point to the centrality of economic warfare in current conflicts. Both types of action aim to alter decision-making by disrupting output and feeding public discontent. And indeed, look at the way Iran tried to shape its ongoing fight with America, or Ukraine is turning the tables against the Russian invader right now.
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'Most Inveterate Enemies'

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It’s 250 years since the American declaration of independence but the war had actually started fifteen months earlier in Boston. During that period many of the colonists claimed that they would remain subject of King George III if a new deal could be hammered out with their faraway sovereign.
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War and Peace

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What was your first job as a journalist?

As an assistant producer on Newsnight in 1984

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, my first two books were written on a manual typewriter

How is social media changing news?

It's great for consolidating a wide range of views on a specific topic