Which makes the book a lesson in skepticism to the very end, just as Knightley would wish it to be. Don't take entirely on trust anything anybody writes, including me. Subject it to an analytical, suspicious, and skeptical eye. The second thing. The military has the edge over us because it is an institution and goes on forever.
Journalists come and go, mostly go.
The military has a system of passing on the lessons it learns in each war. We start from scratch each time. Journalists need to become an institution too. We need a system for studying the media lessons from each war, for recording them and passing them on.