Blackhawk Down

I watched Blackhawk Down last night. It is really a "must-see" movie. It is must-see because this is the future of war. This is probably a decent insight into what American troops are facing in Iraq. Maybe not the specifics, but the threats, the difficulty of invading a city, the mass availability of communication (high tech- when the troops go into Mogadishu, the bad guys are alerted immediately by a young kid with a cell phone. low tech- they also light several tires on fire. The dense black smoke alerts all the militia.)

Blackhawk Down is about why people take sides. They take sides because of the man beside them. The war leaves the sphere of right and wrong (not completely though) and becomes about protecting the guy next to you.

I'm not sure exactly what we can learn idealistically from Blackhawk Down (a true story). But warfare in the next fifty years has to be looked at completely different.