Though war photography has always been high-impact, this is one of the first wars where most of it was done by amateurs.
These are the first wars in which soldiers, protected by strong armor and rapid medical care, routinely survive explosions at close range and then return to combat.
Iraq and Afghanistan are hardly the first wars to be captured by documentary filmmakers, but a particular kind of documentary has arguably become the visual medium that defines those wars.
The first wars of the 21st century have also unfolded there, in Afghanistan, Iraq, western Sudan and Lebanon.This being so, the West has a long history of espying new spectres in the region.
What he really meant, of course, was that to give generations of Scottish children access to Bruce, Wallace and the first wars of independence was to risk handing the hated Scottish Nationalists a free propaganda programme.
Compare Mandelbaum: The heavens set your appetites in motion -- not all your appetites, but even if that were the case, you have received both light on good and evil, and free will, which though it struggle in its first wars with the heavens, then conquers all, if it has been well nurtured.
Iraq being one of the first wars of the e-mail age, Captain Norman has sent e-mail messages to his colleagues with news of his battalion's work delivering fuel, water and equipment to the Iraqi Army, and to Iraqis in need -- some of them children in school buildings.
The Crimean War was one of the first wars with modern reporting, and the dispatches of William Howard Russell described many acts of bravery and valour by British servicemen that went unrewarded.
