Yeah, war has always been nasty, and until recently, you saw your enemy, recognized it and fired....but now you can't ID and enemy because many are using the same tanks and aircraft, and no uinforms..just civvy clothes and a towell for a helmet and no regard for human life, hence suicide bombers. Thought that had stopped when the war in Korea was over.

Technology has become very scary...artillery no longer needs a good FO.,.just send up a drone, ID and verify the location..data is sent to a satelite, returned to the gun's computer and the first round is 100% direct on target. Nobody ever saw anyone. Tankers now have FLIR and can see through smoke and have perfect vision at night. We had to turn the reostat down on the battery powered night sights to where the reticle was barely visible and did not obscure the target area and even moonlight was a hinderance in some cases. You felt pretty good when the second round showered sparks on the target, after using BOT (Burst on Target) to atain a hit with the second shot. Now, it's a guaranteed first round hit with lazer rangefinder instead of the TC estimating range.

One soldier now has more firepower that a full company in Korea and one aircraft can completely destroy a battalion of tanks with one specialized bomb. 155mm guns with the new Ex Caliber round can be off 15 degrees and the the round will guide itself via GPS direct to the target. A new land mine cluster device can be turned on or off and moved to any location and programmed for particular traffic without digging in individual mines, activating fuses etc. It can be swiched off to allow certain traffic through, then switched back on to catch the next intruder. Armor and protective devices seem to be a thing of the past and add on reactive armor also has serious drawbacks. Looks as if sandbags, chiucken wire and wooden logs will no longer be effective. War has become dangerous[X(]