Is todays war really this boring?

It looks boring, but combat is a challenge to film and portray on screen.

(For "Blackhawk Down," they had to create a computer program to add in the effects of the bullets striking the surfaces around the actors all the time.)

And there is always things going on, work being done, with the military.

The times when you see characters talking are slightly fabricated. The Marines would have on-going conversations thru the day, or few days, where they talk about a particular subject. To simplify it, you have the conversation condensed into a coherent back-and-forth so the audience understands what the characters/Marines were thinking about at the time.

Real military, today, is not boring. It is active (hence why they have to eat a lot and drink a lot of water, and are so skinny).

"Remember this: It should not have been Edgar, but Kim." - Stephen King in EW.

Håller med dig Fredrik, det var en väldigt tråkig serie baserat på en ännu tråkigare bok. Ska man försöka sig på dramaturgi bör man veta vad man gör.

Vet inte om jag orkar se mer själv.

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"Is that an iceberg?"

Today's wars aren't anything compared to what the Wars of the past were like, especially not like early modern warfare, for example World War II, Korea and the 6 Day War.

Wars today are based on intelligence, destroying a threat by cutting off its supplies, its reinforcments and the people's willingness to fight. Its also about politics, espcially in Afghanistan, its not about going gung-ho and killing the first thing that moves that isn't wearing a Coalition-force Uniform. We're trying to win over the local's trust, to cease their interest in wanting to fight against us and therefore diminishing what Al-Quaeda have to fight with.

It isn't an armoured war like Kursk, Kiev or those skirmishes across Western France, either. Tanks are so rarely used in Afghanistan, if they're lucky they'll pull five hours a month. Typically heading columns moving into new areas, or looking imposing at the gates of Kandahar.

This isn't war in a conventional sense. Its cloak and dagger, its about creating an image for the people there to follow. Its not the British and French facing off in lines hundreds long and dozens deep and meeting each other in the face on a field.

A truly conventional war with modern technology (picture games like Battlefield, but with thousands and much more coordinated, if that's where you've got the idea of what you think the war out there is like) would be catastrophic, that's when armoured warfare, major combined air assaults etc would take place. Today's tech is mostly designed for that kind of war, for Americans to kick the Ruskies in the balls as they crossed Europe and for Russia to smack them right in the face as they drop troops on American soil. Most of the vehicles out there have been designed within the last decade to protect soldiers in those situations, patrolling units with the threat of IEDs and small arms fire. They aren't expecting tanks to come rolling over the horizon, following a barrage of artillery.

Again, to sum up, its not a war of pitched, conventional means. Its quelling direct threats but trying as hard as possible to win over the hearts and minds of the locals so Al-Quaeda and any other organisations shrivel up and die.

You got to keep in mind that this series basically follows the opening weeks of the Iraq War, which to a certain extent was a cake walk. It wasn't until Al-Qaeda showed up that the heavy fighting began. Watch something on The Triangle of Death or Fallujah.

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My men fight just as well when they are stinking of P*U*S*S*Y- Julius Caesar

Join up, get deployed to a warzone and find out for yourself.

Wars in all ages are about long periods of boredom which the soldiers fill with all sorts of stuff (dirty talk would be the first) and a few moments of sheer terror.

Someone call Kirk Lazarus, this mans just went full retard