Chivalry and Honor

[Stryker]

"modern warfare, with the media everywhere, means armies can no longer get away with the things "

Try selling that crap in Rwanda or the eastern Congo.

Only the dead have seen the end of war, and war boys is all hell.

Well, Rwanda and the Eastern Congo is more about money and corruption than anything else and when there's a lot of money at stake, the people tend to suffer and the media gets bought off - the BBC for example tells only one side of the story, not the background or the reasons things are happening the way they are... in my opinion - of course.... this has been the story in Africa since it was settled.

My post was very general, to provoke discussion about the topic - each of these points obviously have a lot more too them and I was very interested to read Ricky B's post on the American Civil War.. a subject I'm interested in - but of which I don't know too much about.

The part of my post you quoted sort of referred to what's happened in Iraq, with the media in the UK reporting when soldiers have abused citizens (which again was often one sided pile of crap in my opinion).. and media coverage of wars such as vietnam and the Falklands to name just two that come to mind...