Progress in the battlefield

Learning more about Attila and his band of Barbarians, created a lot of fairly grisly images for me. Wondering about the actual process of the battle, how long it lasted and all that crazy strategizing. In the twenty first century, and within the recall of most of us who have televisions, the whole world was treated to the best broadcasted war in history via the news room at CNN, plus live in-depth coverage from its reporters who hunkered down with the soldiers in Iraq. Reporters were embedded, and they used that term to convey the new intimacy of war reporting. TV viewers, tagged along with the embedded journalists and really got a great show, and felt that we knew what was going on. The production was a little too "Hollywood", perhaps, and very interesting and memorable.

Anyone who wanted to participate in war, (armchair warriors) could spend twenty four hours a day checking out the goings-on of the Iraq war. The entry of the US troops was quite spectacular, with their smart bombs, and night vision goggles, and super gizmos of mass destruction. In the gung ho days at the beginning of the Iraq war, the CNN reports of the situation, came complete with the great looking reporters, and a musical score that would rival anything in the movies. It was war at its most entertaining, and one would almost think that it was just a movie that was running all day and all night. I won't go into the politics of the war, as I feel it was very contrived in a jingoistic manner by leaders who think they know what is right and proper to do. Mostly it's a money grab like all wars are, since the beginning of time.