Changes in economy have completely refaced the world of war. Because of the way that the current world’s economy works, war depends more on capital worth and strategy than on bravery and skill. This, of course, has removed much of the valor and honor involved in past war stories and has enabled people to see a more truthful version of the war and how devastating it can be. Since war is based so highly on chance and luck these days, in addition to the decisions of t

hose in power above the average soldier, pretty much all that remains of the psychological aspect of war is the extreme amount of carnage, destruction, and moral degradation that occurs. All of these factors of a changed economical world combine together to effectively remove the romanticism involved in modern warfare.

Finally, the way that war is portrayed to the average civilian has changed immensely. For one, in past centuries the proportion of literate peoples within a nation was a fraction of what it is today. This allows for soldiers in everyday positions to convey a realistic sense of the war along with their feelings, emotions, and personal experiences as an average civilian of that country. In the past, war stories generally only came from the elite or well educated, who did not usually experience first hand warfare, and even if they did, it was not the grunt aspect and front lines that the uneducated and more “dispensable” soldiers experienced. More details come out of this new situation, adding more to the intensity of the story than is available from a poet or scribe who only knows the overview of the war and would never have the opportunity to experience something like that a normal soldier would.

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