In this episode you will learn about what’s addictive about war zones and why some of our brave fellow citizen journalists risk their life covering events everyone else just wants to run away from. We also explore what’s wrong with our approach to veterans and why would someone start a grizzly bear lodge in the Canadian wilderness. This time my guest is Julius Strauss, who was a long-serving correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and specialized in covering wars and other foreign stories. As well as Bosnia and Kosovo, Strauss has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Chechnya, as well as revolutions, uprisings and coups. Later he became Moscow bureau chief for the Telegraph, where he worked for four years, covering Russia under Vladimir Putin and writing about notorious terrorist attacks in the early 2000s. Strauss worked with the US Marines in southern Afghanistan as a political officer during the Afghan war.