Wars Evolve by Modern Technology

Wars Evolve by Modern Technology
Would you rather push a button from a room and demolish thousands of people, or would you rather be on the ground shooting people? Current wars are in the hands of modern technology. In “From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars,” Bruce Franklin describes many different wars by telling the reader in detail about the modern technology used to fight and capture moments in history. Franklin’s article is compared with Pablo Piccaso’s painting, “Guernica.” Piccaso creates an image that wars evolve through ideas of technology and they still end in tragedy. The article and the painting both describe wars changing through modern technology.
Franklin’s purpose and claim is to inform Americans that wars change through modern technology. Wars are visualized and perceived differently, because of modern technology. Present technology, such as, pictures and videos show people that historic wars were more brutal than they have been imagined. Battles have become more graphic and more of a novelty, because of current technology. People are allowed to see the truth and not an exaggerated fable or painting. Causes for wars have not changed, only the weapons have. There are endless and mindless creations on modern technology that can and will be used for war.
Franklin uses logos as evidence to show Americans that people use modern technology as an avenue to access information about wars faster. This became almost instant “in Vietnam, the first war to be televised directly into tens of millions of homes” (Franklin 407). This type of present technology was ground breaking to Americans. It might be too graphic and sickening to watch even though it is life saving. If we had the modern technology we had in the Vietnam War during World War I and World War II, we may have saved lives and possibly ended both wars quicker. We may have lost the Vietnam War, but we gained insight from people that were not fighting the war, such as...