Video game wars are still hell for the victims

A sanitised presentation of conflict on TV screens, and the use of unmanned drones to carry out attacks, leaves many people unaware of the full horror of war, writes Dan Buckley

Video game wars are still hell for the victims

THERE is a scene in the TV war sitcom MASH where Hawkeye discusses with the army chaplain, Fr Mulcahy, the famous “war is hell” quote by William T Sherman, union general in the US Civil War.

Their conversation goes something like this:

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