How Technology Is Changing The Warzone

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Technology Changing the Warzone As our world is revolutionizing and technology advances war must change with it. Before major advances in technology, when our world wasn’t electronically reliant and internet obsessed, war did not have access to as many technological capabilities. Now, the modern day soldier has the ability to broadcast their every experience and thoughts, which to many is a world unknown or misunderstood. In the essay The Blogs of War, author John Hockenberry discusses the reality of communication through the modern day soldier and how advancing technology gives soldiers a variety of ways to communicate, as Christopher Conaway, a lieutenant describes, today every soldier has a cell phone, beeper, game device, or laptop (hockenberry 93). Advancement in technology has changed the way of communication within the warzone for the modern day soldier to communicate to others within or beyond battlefield boundaries. For instance, soldiers are able to stay in touch daily with their loved ones and friends, soldiers use “Milblogging” to report their experiences and get feedback or opinions from other soldiers, and civilians are able to see, read, hear and discuss the war on a daily level from the soldiers oversea experiencing the war. Compared to the previous wars where soldiers could only write a letter while on active duty, it is quite groundbreaking the level of technology that gives the modern day soldier their level and variety of communications. Due to advanced technology, the modern day soldier is able to stay in touch daily with their loved ones and friends. For example, Hockenberry describes 24 year old soldier Chris Missick’s implication of Abu Ghraib where half way through he says: Here I sit, in the desert, staring daily at the electric fence , the deep trenches, and the concertina wire the separates the border of Iraq and Kuwait, and

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