Kit Isn’t Our Biggest Problem In Afghanistan -- Times OnlineWe are now too wise to buy into propaganda. That’s why it’s harder for our soldiers to fight
It’s not just about helicopters and the right kind of armoured car, is it? The problem is that we, as a nation, can’t really do war any more.
Our view of it has become too nuanced and complicated. The reasons for war always required a good edit to be persuasive — the dark motivations snipped out to give the public a focused image of a just and winnable conflict. A war relies on a certain naivety back home to be acceptable. I hate to say it, but nowadays we know too much. The golden wall behind which the powerful have always hidden their little secrets — their MPs’ expenses, their celebrity phone taps and their waterboarding — has been breached so often of late it’s beyond repair.
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My Comment: War, violence, and conflict ..... this has always been a staple of mankind. I do not see this changing any time soon.