Plenty of material going back to almost the beginning of warfare that explains it well! But I get what you mean! It's amazing.
What I mean is, we are seeing it, hearing it as it happens, much different than reading about it in a history book, or even someone telling you of their experiences. This is a FIRST.
I sure appreciate the sacrifice of all the military much more after seeing all the hell they go thru on a day to day basis out there in the desert!
I take some issue with this. Plenty of material going back to almost the beginning of warfare that explains it well! But I get what you mean!
I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but what we are witnessing here through the embeds is not any where near what real warfare is. Our military is so overwhelmingly superior that these reporters are nearly completely insulated from real battle scenes. It is far more instructive to view a classic war film such as "The Longest Day" or even "Battleground".
War is not only hot, dusty, dirty, freezing cold, nasty, bloody, confusing, dull, sickening, and terrrifying, but it is also very brutal. That which we are witnessing is little more than an easy police action due to our superiority. The day we have to go to war against a more evenly matched opponent we will have to revert to a more classic, and more brutal, approach. At that time, whole cities will again be destroyed, and whole populations decimated.
If anything, this war is being waged in a manner which is too clinically clean, and that threatens to serve not to discourage our opponents, but to give them heart.