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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

In real life, it's war, and war's not entertainment. War is 'old men lying and young men dying' kind of deal. That's a saying; I didn't make that up.