Quote Originally Posted by Watchman View Post
All this is because the "war we fight today" is so horrendously lopsided - ragged urban guerillas and angry hill tribes with shoelace budgets and virtually no heavy weaponry to speak of versus some of the most grossly potent and best-equipped space-age military forces on the whole planet.

I suggest reading witness descriptions on what kind of great fun it is to be at the receiving end of an artillery barrage or a massed armoured attack, of which kinds of experiences the World War memoirs for example are quite full of, to get a more realistic and balanced perspective regarding what modern war between at least reasonable equals is like psychologically.
Don't get me wrong, I was by no means belittling that war. Read the earlier posts I made. There is not a single day that I get up and don't think about what kind of courage it must have taken my grandfather to get up every day, sometimes multiple times in a day to get into the cockpit of his spitfire, and rise up to meet hundreds of german aircraft. with only 20 seconds of ammunition and still take it in stride. Hell, what I remember of the man you'd never be able to tell that more than half of his friends died when he was no older than I am now. That's courage.

What was it that Churchill said? "Never in the history of man has so much been owed by so many to so few."