It strikes me as curious, just what the public is allowed to know -- then versus now.
To pick one example: every one of these posts includes at least one map showing exactly where the battle lines were, and as much as possible about the battles themselves.
So when has anyone ever seen a map of the current "war on terror", showing battle lines and describing significant operations?
Of course, people say: "there are no battle lines, since the enemy is well hidden, and is all around us, 360 degrees."
Sure, but that begs the question: then what metrics are being used to measure success & failure, and why has the public never seen them?
It's just most curious to speculate that, even with all our quantum leaps in mass communications, the average citizen today knows less about the status of "war on terror" than did his or her grandparents know about World War Two.