<When did people come to believe that we could fight a war where no one dies?

It just goes to show once again that our parent's generation was made of sterner stuff.



True, in many ways, although I wouldn't sell the current generation short.

Looking at it from another direction, though, it is still amazing how few people do die (compared to earlier wars) in modern high-tech American military actions, both our soldiers and civilians all around. And this fighting an enemy which has no compunctions at all about maximizing collateral damage.

From this standpoint, all those billions spent on high-tech defense systems starts to look a lot better.