If the services gave more medals, the bravery of the troops might be more widely publicised.Before the war on terror, no one complained that medals were too hard to come by.
When Adnan Garaar, who allegedly masterminded al-Shabaab's attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi in September 2013, died in a US drone strike, he became the latest casualty of a little-publicised war on the Somalia-based terror group.
Lord Inchcape's donation, gratefully received at a time when Britain's finances were still recovering from the First World War, was publicised to encourage others to follow suit.
This is War" have also publicised the deeds of Britain's fighting men and women.
Sitting in the ruins of Zeitun, a district almost completely destroyed, Arafat Samouni painfully recounts the events that ended in the death of 30 members of his extended family in one of the war's most publicised tragedies.
And as far as female clergy are concerned, the consecration of various women to holy orders during the Stalinist dictatorship under which Czechoslovakia lived following the second world war, while never officially publicised, has never been declared invalid by the Vatican.
The venue of the event is not being publicised, which has drawn criticism from anti-war activists.
Those apparently motiveless attacks took place in the mid-90s, after the government had declared all-out war on organised crime and several highly publicised trials involving prominent mafia leaders were underway.
Less publicised this week was a new entrance to Whitehall's Churchill War Rooms.
While their causes are well publicised, both admit that sympathy for those affected by the war in Afghanistan is limited.
Had he maintained and publicised that view, this country might have avoided participation in an unlawful war which has brought this country nothing but danger, debt, death and dishonour.
