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Originally posted by RocHard
We did have these reporters in WWII and since then, and they were indeed "embedded" into battle. The general population knew about these deaths, although the US government toned them down.
There are huge differences here.....
For example, the civil war was fought with rifles that fired one shot a minute. In WWII, We had machine guns and dropped bombs - The US killed tens of thousands with two bombs dropped on Japan alone.
In the current war things are much more different.... We can not only target certain buildings, but certain rooms. We can see them from miles away before they even know we are there....
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Yeah, completely different types of warfare...for sure, so it's unfair to compare them directly. But, you can owe that to technology and other things. I'm talking about brute numbers and years here...it's amazing.
As far as embedded reporters go in WW2, I'm not so sure about that. If you could get me a link, I'd appreciate it. As far as I know, there were people with cameras...they filmed it and shipped films back (took like a week). I'd assume some used phones, but that's not quite the same effect.