Throughout history, war has become more and more horrific as it becomes more and more impersonal thanks to advances in technological warfare. War has gone from hand to hand combat on the battlefield, when warriors looked each other in the eye as they either killed or were killed by their opponent to now, killing innocent children and civilians (collateral damage) across continents from computer desks, via unmanned drones and intelligence guided missiles. This poem was written from my memories of Operation Desert Storm and the first Gulf War in the nineties, when these weapons first started to be used more economically and with improved proficiency. Also during these wars, the general public could witness combats in real-time as they happened, comfortably from our homes, on T.V. -making the horrors of war just another form of entertainment that could be manipulated by the obviously biased media on each side. The same battle could be made to look like a complete failure, while the other side reported it as a complete success, thus the references to F's being turned to A's - depending on the whims of the press and media on both sides. That was thirty years ago - the thought of how far we have advanced since then in our technological warfare and considering how proficient our social media, mainstream, and others, have become at manipulating information - I fear that senseless wars will increasingly become more common and blindly accepted in our time.

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