No more draft, career soldiers only Control the media One year tour of duty (they broke this one in Iraq because they were running low)
This is a big one I think. From what I've read, in Vietnam, you just needed to get letter from your local newspaper accrediting you as a journalist, and you basically got a free ticket anywhere in Vietnam with the US military.
Now it's a lot harder to get embedded as a journalist with military units.
The only ones who can do anything about it is civilians. But, none of us seem to be too bothered by the 300,000 innocent lives lost, because America needs war.
Here's the other side in that same war doing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hu%E1%BA%BF
Here's UN forces: https://www.apnews.com/69e56ab46cab400f9f4b3753bd79c930
The Dutch army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawagede_massacre
Saudi forces: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/a-saudi-coal...
The French army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bab_El_Oued
Indian army in its own borders, in Kashmir - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Jammu_a...
Japanese army in China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
We can make a big list, it would be very depressing.
Humans across the world are generally pretty good in saying "it is only crime when the other side does it, not when we do".
"We" definitely means all of humanity.