To an Erma spouter who said, "The generals need to remind themselves we live in an age of the 24-hour news cycle, and the public demands to know how our troops are involved:" Are you kidding me? War is not about the 24-hour news cycle. War is about killing your enemy. Did General Schwarzkopf tell Iraq, "I'm going to bomb you for six weeks and then I'm going to go around your left flank and hit you, and the marines won't be landing in Kuwait." As someone who fought in the region for the past 20 years, the less the enemy knows the better, and I never gave a hoot about the news cycle.