Since these are the battles I understand -- How can I modernize my views to

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understand the current wars? The charge of the Light brigade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4gTt6rptTU

The battle of Waterloo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vlcuvrM1po&feature=related

The Zulus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHhBhGnvZU
What has changed -- how and why ?

Advance capture secure -- move forward etc

The war on terror makes absolutely no sense to me --

Since these are the battles I understand -- How can I modernize my views to understand the current wars?

What is the objective ?
What is the motivation of the opposing side
I assume the officer class is still a bunch of buffoons

I assume that armies still win despite the leadership of the political masters

I assume that there is a clear objective

I assume the armed forces still behave with a sense of morality and esprit decorum
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

2.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html
 
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