Danish Siddiqui, Reuters Photojournalist, Is Killed in Afghanistan
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/world/asia/danish-siddiqui-reuters-photographer-killed-afghanistan.html
War reporting, text, images, audio, though deeply moving, seem to have no effect on national security policy, budgeting, bragging, politicking, business, except to decorate the carnage into family fare and boost a few veterans exploiting their service to get elected, published, hired as mercenaries.
Probably impossible but may be time for the the CEOs of war profiteers to be required to join on the ground reporters, also a senator and congressperson too. Not just fly in for a PR stunt, sitdown with commanders and locals, then on to global offices and factories with a batch of entertainment and buckets of liquor.
Extolling the individual lives lost is a long tradition, along with national monuments, is somehow not reducing the lucrative business of war (and war journalism), instead ratchets up the commiseration, daresay celebration, of the dead's valor and exculpating those who want endless war.
The waste of building another idling nuclear submarine or wandering aircraft carrier or squadron of stealth fighters, drones, autonomous killing machines, far better to be bestowed on health, safety, welfare, education of the families who birth and raise and inspired young warfighters and journalists.
But that would take genuine courage to wind down the very worst humans can do, slaughter one another for asinine reasons, wrongly call inhumanity necessary to save abstract nations.