My few days as a war reporter were inglorious and mercifully trauma-free (for me at least). When I was Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times in the 1990s, I reported on two brutal wars in the breakaway Caucasian republic. My respect for journalistic colleagues who spent far more time in Chechnya, and all other war zones, remains immense. Last year, 104 journalists were killed doing their jobs, half of them in Gaza.
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