THE GLORY OF COMBAT

I was watching a commercial for the US Army on TV tonight, and they were really playing up the whole "glory of combat" angle. You know, things like "only a select few are tough enough..." and it made me start to think about the validity of that premise on today's army. I mean, I understand that in days of yore the glory of combat was a very real thing. Great soldiers trained for years with swords and other weapons, and single soldiers often did turn the tide of a battle, or even a war. That is simply no longer the case today.
As with so many things, our technology has outpaced our humanity, and it is now primarily weapons and equipment that matter in deciding the outcome of combat. What glory is there in mowing down a hundred enemy troops with a machine gun when they are a hundred yards away from you? How can it be glorious to push a button that wipes out an entire village while you are miles above it in an airplane? And, if there really is no glory to be had, isn't it incredibly irresponsible to advertise as if there was?
In the modern army, it is possible to kill everything you can see, using superior weapons and equipment, until the one person you don't see kills you instead. What glory is there is that?

OGW